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.
- 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.
- I like the dreams of the future better
than the history of the past.
- In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- I have never been able to conceive how
any rational being could propose happiness to
himself from the exercise of power over others.
- But though I am an old man,
I am but a young gardener.
- 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.