English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Henry David Thoreau quote: "Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else."

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Henry David Thoreau

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you. James C. Collins
God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods... Socrates
Duke Ellington quote: "People do not retire. They are retired by others."
People do not retire. They are retired by others. Duke Ellington
The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannot be explored. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism. Alex Kapranos
Why, this is the world's soul; and just of the same piece Is every flatterer's spirit. Who can call him His friend that dips in the same dish? for, in My knowing, Timon has been this lord's father, And kept his credit with his purse, Supported his estate; nay, Timon's money Has paid his men their wages: he ne'er drinks, But Timon's silver treads upon his lip; And yet? O, see the monstrousness of man When he looks out in an ungrateful shape? He does deny him, in respect of his, What charitable... William Shakespeare
We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world. Sergey Brin
A. A. Milne quote: "The things that make me different are the things that make me."
The things that make me different are the things that make me. A. A. Milne
The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it. Arthur Conan Doyle
Vanna White quote: "It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have..."
It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters. Vanna White
In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be. Juliet Stevenson
Nikki Giovanni quote: "I'm just totally fascinated by people."
I'm just totally fascinated by people. Nikki Giovanni
Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages. Dean Koontz
Colin Powell quote: "Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from..."
Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find. Colin Powell
Joseph Conrad quote: "Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the..."
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. Joseph Conrad