What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Topics: Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. If there is no response...

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. If there is no response...

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not...

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not...

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you...

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you...

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were...

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were...

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined

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...

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of...

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of...

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use...

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use...

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism...

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism...

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe...

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe...

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for...

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for...

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.