A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
- John Burroughs Quote

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
- John Burroughs Quote

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
- John Burroughs Quote

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
- John Burroughs Quote

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
- John Burroughs Quote

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
- John Burroughs Quote

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
- John Burroughs Quote

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
- John Burroughs Quote

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
- John Burroughs Quote

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
- John Burroughs Quote

Leap, and the net will appear.
- John Burroughs Quote

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
- John Burroughs Quote

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
- John Burroughs Quote

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
- John Burroughs Quote

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
- John Burroughs Quote

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
- John Burroughs Quote

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
- John Burroughs Quote

The secret of happiness is something to do.
- John Burroughs Quote

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
- John Burroughs Quote

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
- John Burroughs Quote

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
- John Burroughs Quote

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.
- John Burroughs Quote

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
- John Burroughs Quote