All HENRY DAVID THOREAU Quotes about “Failing”

“Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.”
“You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.”
“They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.”
“Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.”
“Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not fail.”
“Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.”
“In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.”
“Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.”
“As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.”
“Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.”
“You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.”
“Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought.”

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