Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Opportunity

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Inspirational, Opportunity, Believe In Yourself

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.

Henry David Thoreau

Opportunity, Melancholy

Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.202, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Opportunity, Years

Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.163, Yale University Press

For my part, I would rather look toward Rutland than Jerusalem. Rutland,--modern town,--land of ruts,--trivial and worn,--not toosacred,--with no holy sepulchre, but profane green fields and dusty roads, and opportunity to live as holy a life as you can, where the sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.

Henry David Thoreau

Opportunity, Green Fields, Land

Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU - Ultimate Collection: 6 Books, 26 Essays & 60+ Poems, Including Translations. Biographies & Letters (Illustrated): Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada, Canoeing in the Wilderness, Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, Excursions, Poems of Nature, Familiar Letters…”, p.1709, e-artnow

One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.

Henry David Thoreau

Spring, Opportunity, Should Have

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.195, Courier Corporation

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Henry David Thoreau

Depression, Valentines Day, Opportunity

Walden ch. 18 (1854)

There never is but one opportunity of a kind.

Henry David Thoreau

Opportunity, Kind

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.277, Penguin

The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these. "I never asked thy leave to let me love thee,--I have a right. I love thee not as something private and personal, which is your own, but as something universal and worthy of love, which I have found. O, how I think of you! You are purely good, --you are infinitely good. I can trust you forever. I did not think that humanity was so rich. Give me an opportunity to live.

Henry David Thoreau

Thinking, Opportunity, Giving

Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.408, Modern Library

To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.

Henry David Thoreau

Opportunity, Solitude, Done

Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.97

An Englishman, methinks,--not to speak of other European nations,--habitually regards himself merely as a constituent part of theEnglish nation; he is a member of the royal regiment of Englishmen, and is proud of his company, as he has reason to be proud of it. But an American--one who has made tolerable use of his opportunities--cares, comparatively, little about such things, and is advantageously nearer to the primitive and the ultimate condition of man in these respects.

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Opportunity, Royal

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.915, Delphi Classics