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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Motivational, Success
Thomas Jefferson (2013). “The Jefferson Bible [annotated]: Original Old English Version and Modern Updates to The Jefferson Bible”, p.139, BookBaby

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Success, Determination

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom
Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.112

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.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Positive, Success

I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Jesus, Men
Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.185

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Life, Integrity
Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.28, Cambridge University Press

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Educational, Learning

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Success, Order

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Happiness, Happy
Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.10, Modern Library

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Bible, God
Notes on the State of Virginia, query 18 (1781 - 1785)

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Life, Differences

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.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Time, Patriotic
Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Friendship, Peace
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson
Love, Inspirational, Graduation
Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Motivational, Teaching

We never repent of having eaten too little.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Food, Weight Loss
Letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, 21 February (1825)

Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Motivational, Law

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Funny, Life
Letter to Maria Cosway, 12 October (1786)

Health is worth more than learning.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness
Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1245, Library of America

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Life, Birthday
"Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness".

The hole and the patch should be commensurate.

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Design, Holes
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

Thomas Jefferson
Inspirational, Years, Thousand