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

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Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life is frittered away by detail.

Henry David Thoreau's Popular Quotes

What is religion? That which is never spoken.

- Henry David Thoreau

For things to change, we must change.

- Henry David Thoreau

There is no beginning too small.

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Henry David Thoreau

That government is best which governs least.

- 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

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

- 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

There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself.

- Henry David Thoreau