Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
HT Henry David ThoreauEssayist & naturalist · 1817–1862What this quote means
Trust the life you can picture enough to walk toward it. Confidence here is not certainty but a willingness to keep moving in your chosen direction.
Context
American naturalist and author of Walden, who wrote on simplicity, nature, and living deliberately.
This line is among the quotes by Henry David Thoreau that readers return to on success, drawn from Walden — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.
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