I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Topics: Success Quotes

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things....

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things....

Poverty - it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest

Poverty - it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that...

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that...

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the...

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the...

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both...

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both...

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect...

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect...

If you have built castles in the air; your work need not be lost; that...

If you have built castles in the air; your work need not be lost; that...

In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life...

In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life...

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor...

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor...

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not...

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not...

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better...

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better...

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with...

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with...

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are...

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are...

It is never too late to give up your prejudices

It is never too late to give up your prejudices

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one...

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one...

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in...

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in...