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May you find great value in these Thomas quotes and sayings.
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
We are not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead,
nor to tolerate any error
so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
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
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
If you are possessed by an idea,
you will find it expressed everywhere,
you even smell it.
- Thomas Mann
You can do what you want to do.
- David Thomas
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
If you stand up and be counted,
from time to time you may get yourself knocked down.
But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson
I find that he is happiest
of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
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
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
The glow of one warm thought
is to me worth more than money.
- Thomas Jefferson
I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking
becomes clear - nothing is missing.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Don't talk about what you have done
or what you are going to do.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is in our lives and not our words
that our religion must be read.
- Thomas Jefferson
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say
there are twenty gods or no God.
- Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is not being pained in body, or troubled in mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
Speeches that are measured by the hour
will die with the hour.
- Thomas Jefferson
Faith has to do with things that are not seen
and hope with things that are not at hand.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people ...
They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
The good opinion of mankind,
like the lever of Archimedes,
with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
- Thomas Jefferson
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
- Thomas Jefferson
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- Thomas Haynes Bayly
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
- Thomas Mann
Wisdom I know is social.
She seeks her fellows.
But Beauty is jealous,
and illy bears the presence of a rival.
- Thomas Jefferson
It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations;
entangling alliances with none.
- Thomas Jefferson
Walking is the best possible exercise.
Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
- Thomas Jefferson
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth,
and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
- Thomas Jefferson
Thoughts come clearly while one walks.
- Thomas Mann
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
- Thomas Jefferson
Though lovers be lost love shall not.
- Dylan Thomas
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