Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Strength

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I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Henry David Thoreau

Strength, Fashion, Individuality

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.12, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

Henry David Thoreau

Strength, Shields

Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.15, Courier Corporation

It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

Henry David Thoreau

Strength, Men, World

Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.130, Xist Publishing

When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.

Henry David Thoreau

Strength, Nature, Gardening

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.403, Penguin

The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.

Henry David Thoreau

Strength, Real, Son

Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.361

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

Henry David Thoreau

Strength, Drinking, Differences

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Excursions (Annotated Edition)”, p.97, Jazzybee Verlag

We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of his strength, that is, on his edge, but affords a convenient surface to put upon. He slides all the way through life.... But the brave man is a perfect sphere, which cannot fall on its flat side and is equally strong every way.

Henry David Thoreau

Strength, Strong, Fall

Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.8, Courier Corporation