Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

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• I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Up
  • Why
  • America

• I believe in God, but I don't know what it is - if it's a he, she, a he-she, or anything. Who knows what it is. All I know is that I feel like there's something else there.

  

  Sam Smith
  • God
  • Believe

• I don't think I'm a good dancer.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Good
  • Think
  • Dancer

• A faithful person is revealed by those who hate him or her. Are you hated for your faith or ethics? If nobody hates you, maybe you have not displayed Christ openly enough.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Faith
  • Hate
  • Person

• I find that a lot of times when family members get bronchitis or the flu or something like that, I'll kind of skate through and be really lucky and not get that sick.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • Family
  • Sick

• For who can stop the heart from breaking?

  

  Alan Paton
  • Heart
  • Stop
  • Breaking

• Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which the soul can be recognized for what it is, just as with trees the beauty of the blossom testifies to the goodness of the fruit.

  

  Baldassare Castiglione
  • True
  • Soul
  • Body

• No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • People
  • Intelligent
  • Govern

• Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Prison
  • Chains
  • Disappears

• I've sold shoes, hawked newspapers, jerked sodas, gazed rapturously at the tinsel dream at the end of a runway from my usher's aisle in a burley-cue, drove a truck - then because I didn't like being pushed around, started pushing a pencil around.

  

  Burne Hogarth
  • Dream
  • Shoes
  • Newspapers

• The most trusted way to keep moving up that value chain is to keep investing in individuals - to help them grow in knowledge and skills. Education is hard. It takes individuals to do the hard work.

  

  Andrew Ng
  • Education
  • Grow
  • Investing

• Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.

  

  Martin Delany
  • Work
  • Power
  • Effort

• I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself at any time by means of experiment. Witnesses are examined in doutbful matters which are past and transient, not in those which are actual and present. A judge must seek by means of witnesses to determine whether Peter injured John last night, but not whether John was injured, since the judge can see that for himself.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Judge
  • Prove
  • Determine

• The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Determine
  • Injuries
  • Ruler

• The first thing I did this morning was call my daughter and told her to leave, go to the next town, ... Go to Dallas. Go further.

  

  Larry Williams
  • Daughter
  • Leave
  • Dallas

• Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

  

  Thomas Jefferson
  • Determine
  • Idle
  • Be Done