Thomas Jefferson Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by Thomas Jefferson
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
The glow of one warm thought
is to me worth more than money.
- Thomas Jefferson
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
I find that he is happiest
of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
Don't talk about what you have done
or what you are going to do.
- Thomas Jefferson
I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is not being pained in body, or troubled in mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is in our lives and not our words
that our religion must be read.
- Thomas Jefferson
Walking is the best possible exercise.
Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Speeches that are measured by the hour
will die with the hour.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say
there are twenty gods or no God.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
- Thomas Jefferson
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom I know is social.
She seeks her fellows.
But Beauty is jealous,
and illy bears the presence of a rival.
- Thomas Jefferson
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people ...
They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
The good opinion of mankind,
like the lever of Archimedes,
with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
- Thomas Jefferson
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth,
and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
- Thomas Jefferson
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
Power Sayings
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am one with the power and wisdom of the Universe.
I have all that I need.
- Louise L. Hay
Know the power of choice.
Fly life on free wings,
and sing to its glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is a power for good in the universe
greater than you are and you can use it.
- Ernest Holmes
When we are happy and serene,
time loses its power over us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power of breathing deeply and slowly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
I have ready access to a power beyond my wildest imagination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that you hold the power to
bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Giving is the highest expression of our power.
- Vivian Greene
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
I am so honored that the Power of the Universe
has chosen for me to be ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
My greatest Power and my greatest Inner Peace come
when I Intend my future, and when I avoid Expecting it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
Faith consists in believing when it is
beyond the power of reason to believe.
- Voltaire
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
The power of the Wizard lives within me.
I call upon its magic at will - transforming Fear into Love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
- Helen Keller
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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