Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Courage

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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Henry David Thoreau

Motivational, Courage, Regret

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Henry David Thoreau

Courage, Fall, Learning

Walden ch. 1 (1854)

Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.

Henry David Thoreau

Courage, Law, Liberty

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.

Henry David Thoreau

Success, Courage, Fighting

Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.12, David M Gross

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

Henry David Thoreau

Life, Courage, Mean

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

The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.

Henry David Thoreau

Courage, Morning, Three

'Walden' (1854) 'Sounds'.

Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

Henry David Thoreau

Courage, Sex, Men

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.59, BookBaby

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

Henry David Thoreau

Courage, Men, East

Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.217, Xist Publishing

Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But alas! each relaxing and desperation is an instinct too. To be active, well, happy, implies courage. To be ready to fight in a duel or a battle implies desperation, or that you hold your life cheap.

Henry David Thoreau

Courage, Fighting, Despair

Henry David Thoreau (1894). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes”