Henry David Thoreau Quotes

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.

In the end, what counts is what you do.

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

Whatever can be done in this world will be done. The only question is whether it will be done by you or to you.

If you're not happy with something, take positive steps.

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.

You can’t help someone just by making a wish to do so, you have to take action.

Our problem is not the lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing. Most people know far more than they think they do

We’re constantly being bombarded by problems that we face and sometimes we can get completely overwhelmed. [But] we should always feel like a hummingbird. I may feel insignificant, but I don’t want to be like the other animals watching the planet go down the drain. I’ll be a hummingbird, I’ll do the best I can.

REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.

Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.

If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

If you're aware of injustice, you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain about it and not do anything, or put your energies into doing something about it.

I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

If you can talk the talk but cant walk the walk youll look like a fool. That's the risk but with great risk comes great reward.

I think I deserve an apology.

Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect In this most profound way, we are held responsible for every action, thought, and feeling, which is to say, for our every intention.

If you really want to make a change, just get up off your ass and do it.

If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.