Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
How much pain have cost us the evils that have never happened.
Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
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 can be done if we are always doing.
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talent.
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."