Henry David Thoreau Quotes

A man must walk only his own path...Never another's or his feet will grow tired and sore. And he will feel lost even when he arrives.

I don't think I constantly have to be on a promotional spree or be seen in the newspapers every day or even be part of social parties and film gangs. I'm having my own set of journey, and I am happy with it because I don't want to be like everybody.

No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other path, everyone's path, easy and wide, goes nowhere. I am alone and find my way.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.

I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.

Always take your own path. And do what feels right for you.

I never wanted to be like anyone growing up. It's always been about the enjoyment, and I've just never wanted to imitate anyone.

At WSX I think I was very much trying to figure it out on my own and we were creating our own style and our own thing. I can only speak for myself, I was not trying to be anything. I was not trying to be like anyone else.

For all the oddballs and misfits out there, eventually, if you just follow your path, you will reach somewhere no one else has. You are uniquely meant to do something that only you can do.

I am a strong believer to follow your own path, no matter what people think.

Be yourself, find out what you love, find out what you really want to do, and go do it. And don't depend on people who don't have your best interests at heart.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

I realized that what was most important to me was following my own path, and not the one laid down for me by others.

Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but nothing will efface his origins, the marks of which he carries with him everywhere. I think it is important to know this and even find it a matter for rejoicing, as the strongest people do, regardless of their station. On this acceptance, literally, the life of a writer depends.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

Shri Krishna says: "Better die in your own path than attempt the path of another."

Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

Be original. The world will try to fit you into a mold, but carve your own path.

Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.

Live life on your own path. Everybody's got something different. You can't keep up with all those people, so you better keep up with yourself.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

Somehow, people get very nervous about leaving the comfortable life of rules behind and never take the chance to develop their own internal voice, to listen to their own consciousness.