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

• The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Target
  • Heaviest

• I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Color
  • Used
  • Grass

• Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Culture
  • Choices
  • Possibility

• 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

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

  

  Thomas Jefferson
  • Determine
  • Idle
  • Be Done