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Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Attitude

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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.

I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.

Henry David Thoreau
Attitude, Flower, Thorns

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Henry David Thoreau
Positive, Attitude, Feet
Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.373, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

As for the tenets of the Brahmans, we are not so much concerned to know what doctrines they held, as that they were held by any. We can tolerate all philosophies.... It is the attitude of these men, more than any communication which they make, that attracts us.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Attitude, Philosophy
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.547, Simon and Schuster

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.

Henry David Thoreau
Attitude, Paradise, Faults
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.232, Xist Publishing

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.

Henry David Thoreau
Attitude, Positive Thinking, Roots
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.183, Graphic Arts Books

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men. Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

Henry David Thoreau
Morning, Attitude, Men
"Walden".

It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such.

Henry David Thoreau
Attitude, Men, Law
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.229, Henry David Thoreau

If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him, he would find suddenly that there was no such evil to bear; his brave back would go a-begging.

Henry David Thoreau
Attitude, Men, Evil
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.190, Jazzybee Verlag

Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a couple of Irishmen have a private sparring- match on one of them, as it is a government monopoly; all the great seaports are in a boxing attitude, and you must sail prudently between two tiers of stony knuckles before you come to feel the warmth of their breasts.

Henry David Thoreau
Couple, Attitude, Sea

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