Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so perfectly symbolical of human life,--now climbing the hills, now descending into the vales. From the summits he beholds the heavens and the horizon, from the vales he looks up to the heights again. He is treading his old lessons still, and though he may be very weary and travel-worn, it is yet sincere experience.

Henry David Thoreau's Popular Quotes

What is religion? That which is never spoken.

- Henry David Thoreau

There is no beginning too small.

- Henry David Thoreau

For things to change, we must change.

- Henry David Thoreau

We could not help being struck by the seeming, though innocent, indifference of Nature to these men's necessities, while elsewhereshe was equally ser…

- Henry David Thoreau

Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the small…

- Henry David Thoreau

That government is best which governs least.

- Henry David Thoreau

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

- Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself.

- Henry David Thoreau

If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.

- Henry David Thoreau