Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

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.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

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

Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

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

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

If you want something you've never had you must be willing to do something you've never done.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Take care of your cents: dollars will take care of themselves.

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

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.

Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.