Thomas Jefferson Quotes
Browse 16 quotes from Thomas Jefferson, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
“To achieve something you've never had, you must do something you've never done.”
“When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.”
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
“He who knows best knows how little he knows.”
“It is always better to have no ideas than false ones.”
“Never spend your money before you have it.”
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”
“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”
“Give about two hours every day to exercise, for health must not be sacrificed to learning. A strong body makes the mind strong.”
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.”
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal.”
