Inspirational Quotations by Thomas Jefferson

  • 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.
    From Issue 34
  • Nothing can stop the man with the right
    mental attitude from achieving his goal;
    nothing on earth can help the man
    with the wrong mental attitude.
    From Issue 70
  • I like the dreams of the future better
    than the history of the past.
    From Issue 109
  • In matters of style, swim with the current;
    in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
    From Issue 119
  • I have never been able to conceive how
    any rational being could propose happiness to
    himself from the exercise of power over others.
    From Issue 187
  • But though I am an old man,
    I am but a young gardener.
    From Issue 206
  • Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on
    the condition of life in which chance has placed us,
    but is always the result of good conscience, good health,
    occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
    From Issue 218

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