Thomas Jefferson
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Never spend your money before you have it.
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.
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.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.