Henry David Thoreau Quotes

The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things.

The 2 master skills of life are: The Science of Achievement and The Art of Fulfillment.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

Self-realization is great.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

My life is better with every year of living it.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

The primary motivation for me is to learn.

I know myself, I'm learning myself. I'm growing, I'm maturing.

My life guided me to express my full potential.

In life we always have to learn something, I learn everything daily.

Every person can reach a full life.