10 motivational henry david thoreau quotes for success in life

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.