Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Topics: Morality Quotes

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it...

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it...

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

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... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to...

If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to...

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels,...

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels,...

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...

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for...

I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for...

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and...

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and...

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they...

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they...

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to...

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to...

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only...

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only...

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you...

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you...

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until...

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until...