Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Success

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.
[Also known as:]Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.