Browsing Quotes By Henry David Thoreau
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Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauPosted: 02 Jul 2010 at 2:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauPosted: 10 Apr 2010 at 7:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauPosted: 17 Nov 2008 at 8:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauSource: Why We Want You to Be RichPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 9:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:29 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil there is one striking at the root.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor… 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.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!