"Action is the foundational key to all success."
"""It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation."" —Jim Rohn
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“A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.” —Brian Tracy
“Being miserable is a habit; being happy is a habit; and the choice is yours.” —Tom Hopkins
“Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.” —Harvey Mackay
“Nothing needs reforming so much as other people’s habits.” —Mark Twain
“The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.” —Brian Tracy
“The secret to momentum in life can be found in the word ‘momentum.’ You create it moment by moment.” —Doug Firebaugh
“The truth is you don’t break a bad habit, you replace it with a good one.” —Denis Waitley
“When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven’t developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges
that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habits and don’t know how to eliminate them effectively.” —W. Clement Stone
Blessed are they who attend strictly to their own business.- Zig Ziglar
So live that when people get to know you, they will want to know Christ. - Zig Ziglar
The beauty of life is that everything has beauty. Mistakes leave us with lessons.
Fears teach courage. We appreciate the good when we've been through the bad. We grow as we struggle.
We cannot all be apostles; but we can all be living epistles.- Zig Ziglar
Where we go and what we do advertises what we are.- Zig Ziglar
You cannot become a saint by comparing yourself with a sinner.- Zig Ziglar
A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success. (Source Unknown)
"Get in, get into the place that's your nature, whether it's running a corporation or picking daisies in a field. Get in there and live to it, live to the fullness of it. Become what you are and I'll say to you: You've done more than most men. Most men don't ever do that. They'll work at a job and not
know why. They'll marry a woman and not know why. They'll go to their graves and not know why. (E.L.Doctorow)"
Talent never asks: Will they like it?" Talent pleases itself. That's the difference between talent and ordinary." (Larry King)
There are four different kinds of bones in an organisation: wish-bones, who wish someone else would do it; jaw-bones, who talk a lot but do very little; knuckle-bones, who knock what everyone else does; and backbones, who do the work. (William Wilkerson)
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. (Henry Kaiser 1882 - 1967)
Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them. (John Whitmore)
If you commit yourself to performing one 10-minute act of exceptional customer courtesy per day and induce your colleagues in a 100-person company to do likewise, that means 24,000 new courteous acts a year. Such is the stuff of revolutions! (Tom Peters)
Most people are not really conceited, but feel a certain amount of inferiority and tend to get a little discouraged with themselves, therefore encouragement is a very important thing! I do it all the time! I praise everybody for everything they do that I see is good. (David Brandt Berg)
No one can predict to what heights you can soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings. (Source Unknown)
Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful, just as one is more angry for being told one is angry. (Katherine F. Gerould)
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. (Saskya Pandita 1182 - 1251)
I’m not a great motivator. I just get rid of guys who can’t motivate themselves. (Lou Holtz)
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. (Goethe)
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one. (John Wooden)
Don’t wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up under it. (Frank C. Bucaro)
It’s a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. (Elbert Hubbard)
Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top-ups. (Peter Davies)
The majority of men are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, terribly objective sometimes, but the real task is in fact to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others. (Soren Kierkegaard 1813 - 55)
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. (Henry Longfellow 1819 - 92)
Don't pretend to be what you don't intend to be. - C. Pentz
Etiquette is a little better than what is absolutely necessary. - C. Pentz
Let your testimony be written in large enough letters that the world can always read it. - C. Pentz
Make sure that what you're living for is truly worth dying for. - C. Pentz
One proof of your love for God is your love for your neighbor. - C. Pentz
Evaluation of performance, merit rating or annual review nourishes short-term performance, annihilates long-term planning, builds fear, demolishes teamwork, nourishes rivalry and politics. It leaves people bitter, crushed, bruised, battered, desolate, despondent, dejected, feeling inferior, some even depressed, unable to comprehend why they are inferior. (W.Edwards Deming 1900 - 93)
Everyone needs to know what is expected of them. Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying. (Merry Browne)
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning. (Peter Senge)
The golfer who doesn’t count his shots is only there for the walk. (Source Unknown)
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it. Charles Swindoll (1934-, American pastor, author)
If you want to find out about the road ahead, then ask about it from those coming back. Chinese Proverb
If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have little, give of your heart. Arab Proverb
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990, American publisher, businessman)
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others. Devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. -- Mitch Albom
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pike (1809-1891, American journalist, lawyer, and soldier)"
"If you want your children to have a peaceful life, let them suffer a little hunger and a little coldness. - Chinese Proverb
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Focus always precedes success. - DENNIS WAITLEY
If you don’t know where you’re going, it doesn’t matter if your alarm doesn’t go off in the morning. - DENNIS WAITLEY
If you go to your place of business to see what happens, you’ll put out fires but make little progress toward your goals. - DENNIS WAITLEY
Purpose is the engine that powers our lives. - DENNIS WAITLEY
There is a gold mine, in your goal mind! - DENNIS WAITLEY
What you get is what you set! - DENNIS WAITLEY
Your mind is the most marvelous bio-computer ever created. It does not deal with vague ideas; it is activated by specifics. - DENNIS WAITLEY
“Don’t become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind?” - JIM ROHN
“It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.”- JIM ROHN
“Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, ‘Since I will be no one’s slave, I will be no one’s master.’”- JIM ROHN
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“Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don’t use their excuses. Take charge of your own life.”- JIM ROHN
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“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. You don’t have charge of the constellations, but you do have charge of whether you read, develop new skills, and take new classes.”- JIM ROHN
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“You say, ‘The country is messed up.’ That’s like cursing the soil and the seed and the sunshine and the rain, which is all you’ve got. Don’t curse all you’ve got. When you get your own planet, you can rearrange this whole deal. This one you’ve got to take like it comes.”- JIM ROHN
“Your paycheck is not your employer’s responsibility; it’s your responsibility. Your employer has no control over your value, but you do.”- JIM ROHN
A pessimist is one who expects nothing on a silver platter except tarnish. -Zig Ziglar
Believe your beliefs; doubt your doubts.-Zig Ziglar
The pessimist is the one who is always looking through the wrong end of the telescope.-Zig Ziglar
Two pessimists met at a party. Instead of shaking hands, they shook heads.-Zig Ziglar
When you say, “I can’t,” you are saying, “God can’t.”-Zig Ziglar
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. - Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965, Austrian-born American law teacher, judge)
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British Prime Minister )
"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get." Ray Croc (Mc Donalds Founder)
"I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know"
"Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration."
Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness. Zig Ziglar
The best dreams happen with your eyes wide open.
The pessimist sees only the mist.
What's a genius? Someone who aims at something no one else can see and hits it.
Why grieve because all your dreams have not come true? Neither have all your nightmares.
You cannot have good ideas until you have a lot of dreams.
"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."
If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will
make it. Persian Proverb
"Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight
years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept
in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.
- Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert)"
If you must begin, then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.
Chogyam Trungpa
You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life. James G. Bilkey
Without consistency there is no moral strength. Author Unknown
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself. William Penn (1644-1718, British religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania )
Chance favors only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur (1822-1895, French scientist who developed pasteurization)
"If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will
make it. Persian Proverb
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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. Joseph Ross
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking. David J. Schwartz (American trainer, author of "The
Magic of Thinking Big"
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. William Hazlitt (1778-1830, British essayist)
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Chance favors only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur (1822-1895, French scientist who developed pasteurization) "
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. Sheldon Kopp (1929-, American psychologist) "
I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative. Giovani della Casa (1503-1556, Papal secretary of state)
"You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences. W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965, British novelist, playwright )
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One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through
life, never deciding to master anything in particular. Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach)
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it
must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. - George Washington
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.-George Washington
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.-George Washington
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.-George Washington
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God. -George Washington
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national
morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. -George Washington
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. -George Washington
NO ARSENAL, NO WEAPON IN THE ARSENALS OF THE WORLD, IS SO FORMIDABLE AS THE WILL AND MORAL COURAGE OF FREE MEN AND WOMEN." - - Ronald Reagan
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over
another. -George Washington
Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.- George Washington
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people,it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government." Patrick
Henry
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. -George Washington
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.-George
Washington
WHEN THE PEOPLE FEAR THEIR GOVERNMENT THERE IS TYRANNY, WHEN THE GOVERNMENT FEARS THE PEOPLE, THERE IS LIBERTY !" - - THOMAS JEFFERSON
WHENSOEVER THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT ASSUMES UN-DELEGATED POWERS, ITS ACTS ARE UN-AUTHORITATIVE, VOID, AND OF NO FORCE. - - Thomas Jefferson
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the
assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence
than an armed man.” (Quoting Cesare Beccaria)-Thomas Jefferson
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.-Thomas
Jefferson
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.-Thomas Jefferson
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.- Thomas Jefferson
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of
labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of
industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.- Thomas Jefferson
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. Thomas Jefferson
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. Thomas Jefferson
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.- Thomas Jefferson
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. - Thomas Jefferson
As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also. - Thomas Jefferson
Be polite to all, but intimate with few. - Thomas Jefferson
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. - Thomas Jefferson
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. - Thomas Jefferson
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. -Thomas Jefferson
Delay is preferable to error. -Thomas Jefferson
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
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.-Thomas Jefferson
Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.-Thomas Jefferson
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.-Thomas Jefferson
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.-Thomas Jefferson
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.-Thomas Jefferson
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. -Thomas Jefferson
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.-Thomas Jefferson
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
-Thomas Jefferson
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into
tyranny. -Thomas Jefferson
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.-Thomas Jefferson
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be
discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner
of death to the public liberty.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the
spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century
or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
He who knows best knows how little he knows.-Thomas Jefferson
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.-Thomas Jefferson
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.- Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.-Thomas Jefferson
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. -Thomas
Jefferson
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.-Thomas Jefferson
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. -Thomas Jefferson
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. -Thomas Jefferson
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. -Thomas Jefferson
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their
control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. -Thomas Jefferson
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.-Thomas Jefferson
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.- Thomas Jefferson
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of
them.-Thomas Jefferson
I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. (Back then!)-Thomas
Jefferson
I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.-Thomas Jefferson
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.- Thomas Jefferson
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.-Thomas Jefferson
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.- Thomas Jefferson
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. -Thomas Jefferson
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is
to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?-Thomas Jefferson
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.- Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current;In matters of principle, stand like a rock.-Thomas Jefferson
It is better to tolerate that rare instance of a parent’s refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings by a forcible
transportation and education of the infant against the will of his father.- Thomas Jefferson
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.-Thomas Jefferson
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.-Thomas Jefferson
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.-Thomas
Jefferson
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be
on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.-Thomas Jefferson
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.-Thomas Jefferson
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than
learning.-Thomas Jefferson
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.-Thomas Jefferson
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.-Thomas Jefferson
Most bad government has grown out of too much government.- Thomas Jefferson
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. -Thomas Jefferson
Never spend your money before you have earned it. -Thomas Jefferson
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.-Thomas Jefferson
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important. -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
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. -Thomas Jefferson
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. -Thomas Jefferson
One man with courage is a majority. -Thomas Jefferson
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. -Thomas Jefferson
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. -Thomas Jefferson
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then
corruption, its necessary consequence.-Thomas Jefferson
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
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain
uninterrupted.-Thomas Jefferson
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. -Thomas Jefferson
Power is not alluring to pure minds.-Thomas Jefferson
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of
the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.-Thomas Jefferson
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful
to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.- Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?- Thomas Jefferson
Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.-Thomas Jefferson
Taste cannot be controlled by law.-Thomas Jefferson
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. -Thomas Jefferson
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. -Thomas Jefferson
The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.-Thomas Jefferson
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. -Thomas Jefferson
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. -Thomas Jefferson
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.-Thomas
Jefferson
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.- Thomas Jefferson
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.-Thomas Jefferson
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.-Thomas Jefferson
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.-Thomas Jefferson
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty
gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.-Thomas Jefferson
The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of
society.-Thomas Jefferson
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.-Thomas Jefferson
The man who reads nothing at all is better than the educated man who reads nothing but newspapers.- Thomas Jefferson
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.-Thomas Jefferson
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.-Thomas Jefferson
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.- Thomas Jefferson
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.-Thomas Jefferson
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.-Thomas Jefferson
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but
better so than not to be exercised at all.-Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.-Thomas Jefferson
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in
government.-Thomas Jefferson
The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become
the legalized version of the first.- Thomas Jefferson
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.-Thomas Jefferson
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.- Thomas Jefferson
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.-Thomas Jefferson
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.-Thomas Jefferson
To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose
fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free
exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.-Thomas Jefferson
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.-Thomas Jefferson
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.-Thomas Jefferson
Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.-Thomas Jefferson
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among
these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.-Thomas Jefferson
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding
generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.-Thomas Jefferson
We never repent of having eaten too little.-Thomas Jefferson
Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.-Thomas Jefferson
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?-Thomas Jefferson
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.-Thomas Jefferson
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.-Thomas Jefferson
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.-Thomas Jefferson
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.-Thomas Jefferson
When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.-Thomas Jefferson
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.-Thomas Jefferson
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.- Thomas Jefferson
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.-Thomas Jefferson
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.-Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.-Thomas Jefferson
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. "
“A person in authority is not necessarily a saint, an artist, a philosopher or a hero, but he respects truth, appreciates what is beautiful, knows how to
behave himself and is courageous in meeting his obligations.” —Earl Nightingale
“Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one’s talents and gifts to the benefits of others—these are the measures of success that
endure when material things have passed away.” —Gerald Ford
“Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it.” —Jim Rohn
“Leaders know one thing… if they have no one following… it’s gonna be a long walk.” —Doug Firebaugh
“Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.” —Brian Tracy
“Leadership is not a right—it’s a responsibility.” —John Maxwell
“Managers help people to see themselves as they are. Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.” —Jim Rohn
“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can
accomplish.” —Sam Walton
“Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become
successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.” —Denis Waitley
“Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.” —Zig Ziglar
“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What's in it for me?’” —Brian Tracy
“Those who will lead in this life must start against the crowd and lead forcefully until the crowd sees the results and changes their direction.” —Chris
Widener
“When you identify something that you do well, that you enjoy doing, and that supports the values that are important to you, you have defined success in your
terms.” —Nido Qubein
“You don’t become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.” —Mark Victor Hansen
Intelligence is like a river—the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
Knowledge humbles great men, astonishes the common man, and puffs up the little man.
Knowledge is power only when it is turned on.
Knowledge is power, and so is dynamite. Both are dangerous unless handled wisely.
You can always tell a well-informed man—his ideas are the same as yours.
A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things. - Chinese Proverb
If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere. Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990, American publisher,
businessman)
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, American President (16th)
Tomorrow's battle is won during today's practice. - Japanese Proverb
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""Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something, then you have the time to do something about it."" -- Anthony D'Angelo"
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes. - Chinese Proverb
"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." —James Crook
If you want to find out about the road ahead, then ask about it from those coming back. Chinese Proverb
If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have little, give of your heart. Arab Proverb
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990, American publisher, businessman)
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others. Devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. -- Mitch Albom
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pike (1809-1891, American journalist, lawyer, and soldier)"
"If you want your children to have a peaceful life, let them suffer a little hunger and a little coldness. - Chinese Proverb
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Focus always precedes success. - DENNIS WAITLEY
If you don’t know where you’re going, it doesn’t matter if your alarm doesn’t go off in the morning. - DENNIS WAITLEY
If you go to your place of business to see what happens, you’ll put out fires but make little progress toward your goals. - DENNIS WAITLEY
Purpose is the engine that powers our lives. - DENNIS WAITLEY
There is a gold mine, in your goal mind! - DENNIS WAITLEY
What you get is what you set! - DENNIS WAITLEY
Your mind is the most marvelous bio-computer ever created. It does not deal with vague ideas; it is activated by specifics. - DENNIS WAITLEY
“Don’t become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind?” - JIM ROHN
“It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.”- JIM ROHN
“Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, ‘Since I will be no one’s slave, I will be no one’s master.’”- JIM ROHN
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“Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don’t use their excuses. Take charge of your own life.”- JIM ROHN
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“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. You don’t have charge of the constellations, but you do have charge of whether you read, develop new skills, and take new classes.”- JIM ROHN
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“You say, ‘The country is messed up.’ That’s like cursing the soil and the seed and the sunshine and the rain, which is all you’ve got. Don’t curse all you’ve got. When you get your own planet, you can rearrange this whole deal. This one you’ve got to take like it comes.”- JIM ROHN
“Your paycheck is not your employer’s responsibility; it’s your responsibility. Your employer has no control over your value, but you do.”- JIM ROHN
A pessimist is one who expects nothing on a silver platter except tarnish. -Zig Ziglar
Believe your beliefs; doubt your doubts.-Zig Ziglar
The pessimist is the one who is always looking through the wrong end of the telescope.-Zig Ziglar
Two pessimists met at a party. Instead of shaking hands, they shook heads.-Zig Ziglar
When you say, “I can’t,” you are saying, “God can’t.”-Zig Ziglar
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. - Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965, Austrian-born American law teacher, judge)
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British Prime Minister )
"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get." Ray Croc (Mc Donalds Founder)
"I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know"
"Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration."
Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness. Zig Ziglar
The best dreams happen with your eyes wide open.
The pessimist sees only the mist.
What's a genius? Someone who aims at something no one else can see and hits it.
Why grieve because all your dreams have not come true? Neither have all your nightmares.
You cannot have good ideas until you have a lot of dreams.
"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."
If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will
make it. Persian Proverb
"Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight
years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept
in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.
- Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert)"
If you must begin, then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.
Chogyam Trungpa
You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life. James G. Bilkey
Without consistency there is no moral strength. Author Unknown
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself. William Penn (1644-1718, British religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania )
Chance favors only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur (1822-1895, French scientist who developed pasteurization)
"If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will
make it. Persian Proverb
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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. Joseph Ross
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking. David J. Schwartz (American trainer, author of "The
Magic of Thinking Big"
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. William Hazlitt (1778-1830, British essayist)
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Chance favors only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur (1822-1895, French scientist who developed pasteurization) "
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. Sheldon Kopp (1929-, American psychologist) "
I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative. Giovani della Casa (1503-1556, Papal secretary of state)
"You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences. W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965, British novelist, playwright )
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One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through
life, never deciding to master anything in particular. Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach)
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it
must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. - George Washington
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.-George Washington
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.-George Washington
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.-George Washington
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God. -George Washington
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national
morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. -George Washington
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. -George Washington
NO ARSENAL, NO WEAPON IN THE ARSENALS OF THE WORLD, IS SO FORMIDABLE AS THE WILL AND MORAL COURAGE OF FREE MEN AND WOMEN." - - Ronald Reagan
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over
another. -George Washington
Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.- George Washington
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people,it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government." Patrick
Henry
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. -George Washington
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.-George
Washington
WHEN THE PEOPLE FEAR THEIR GOVERNMENT THERE IS TYRANNY, WHEN THE GOVERNMENT FEARS THE PEOPLE, THERE IS LIBERTY !" - - THOMAS JEFFERSON
WHENSOEVER THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT ASSUMES UN-DELEGATED POWERS, ITS ACTS ARE UN-AUTHORITATIVE, VOID, AND OF NO FORCE. - - Thomas Jefferson
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the
assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence
than an armed man.” (Quoting Cesare Beccaria)-Thomas Jefferson
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.-Thomas
Jefferson
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.-Thomas Jefferson
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.- Thomas Jefferson
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of
labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of
industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.- Thomas Jefferson
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. Thomas Jefferson
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. Thomas Jefferson
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.- Thomas Jefferson
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. - Thomas Jefferson
As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also. - Thomas Jefferson
Be polite to all, but intimate with few. - Thomas Jefferson
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. - Thomas Jefferson
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. - Thomas Jefferson
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. -Thomas Jefferson
Delay is preferable to error. -Thomas Jefferson
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
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.-Thomas Jefferson
Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.-Thomas Jefferson
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.-Thomas Jefferson
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.-Thomas Jefferson
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.-Thomas Jefferson
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. -Thomas Jefferson
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.-Thomas Jefferson
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
-Thomas Jefferson
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into
tyranny. -Thomas Jefferson
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.-Thomas Jefferson
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be
discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner
of death to the public liberty.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the
spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century
or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
He who knows best knows how little he knows.-Thomas Jefferson
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.-Thomas Jefferson
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.- Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.-Thomas Jefferson
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. -Thomas
Jefferson
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.-Thomas Jefferson
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. -Thomas Jefferson
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. -Thomas Jefferson
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. -Thomas Jefferson
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their
control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. -Thomas Jefferson
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.-Thomas Jefferson
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.- Thomas Jefferson
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of
them.-Thomas Jefferson
I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. (Back then!)-Thomas
Jefferson
I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.-Thomas Jefferson
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.- Thomas Jefferson
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.-Thomas Jefferson
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.- Thomas Jefferson
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. -Thomas Jefferson
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is
to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?-Thomas Jefferson
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.- Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current;In matters of principle, stand like a rock.-Thomas Jefferson
It is better to tolerate that rare instance of a parent’s refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings by a forcible
transportation and education of the infant against the will of his father.- Thomas Jefferson
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.-Thomas Jefferson
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.-Thomas Jefferson
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.-Thomas
Jefferson
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be
on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.-Thomas Jefferson
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.-Thomas Jefferson
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than
learning.-Thomas Jefferson
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.-Thomas Jefferson
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.-Thomas Jefferson
Most bad government has grown out of too much government.- Thomas Jefferson
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. -Thomas Jefferson
Never spend your money before you have earned it. -Thomas Jefferson
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.-Thomas Jefferson
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important. -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
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. -Thomas Jefferson
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. -Thomas Jefferson
One man with courage is a majority. -Thomas Jefferson
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. -Thomas Jefferson
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. -Thomas Jefferson
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then
corruption, its necessary consequence.-Thomas Jefferson
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
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain
uninterrupted.-Thomas Jefferson
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. -Thomas Jefferson
Power is not alluring to pure minds.-Thomas Jefferson
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of
the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.-Thomas Jefferson
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful
to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.- Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?- Thomas Jefferson
Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.-Thomas Jefferson
Taste cannot be controlled by law.-Thomas Jefferson
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. -Thomas Jefferson
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. -Thomas Jefferson
The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.-Thomas Jefferson
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. -Thomas Jefferson
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. -Thomas Jefferson
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.-Thomas
Jefferson
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.- Thomas Jefferson
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.-Thomas Jefferson
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.-Thomas Jefferson
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.-Thomas Jefferson
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty
gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.-Thomas Jefferson
The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of
society.-Thomas Jefferson
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.-Thomas Jefferson
The man who reads nothing at all is better than the educated man who reads nothing but newspapers.- Thomas Jefferson
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.-Thomas Jefferson
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.-Thomas Jefferson
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.- Thomas Jefferson
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.-Thomas Jefferson
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.-Thomas Jefferson
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but
better so than not to be exercised at all.-Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.-Thomas Jefferson
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in
government.-Thomas Jefferson
The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become
the legalized version of the first.- Thomas Jefferson
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.-Thomas Jefferson
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.- Thomas Jefferson
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.-Thomas Jefferson
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.-Thomas Jefferson
To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose
fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free
exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.-Thomas Jefferson
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.-Thomas Jefferson
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.-Thomas Jefferson
Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.-Thomas Jefferson
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among
these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.-Thomas Jefferson
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding
generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.-Thomas Jefferson
We never repent of having eaten too little.-Thomas Jefferson
Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.-Thomas Jefferson
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?-Thomas Jefferson
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.-Thomas Jefferson
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.-Thomas Jefferson
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.-Thomas Jefferson
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.-Thomas Jefferson
When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.-Thomas Jefferson
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.-Thomas Jefferson
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.- Thomas Jefferson
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.-Thomas Jefferson
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.-Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.-Thomas Jefferson
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. "
“A person in authority is not necessarily a saint, an artist, a philosopher or a hero, but he respects truth, appreciates what is beautiful, knows how to
behave himself and is courageous in meeting his obligations.” —Earl Nightingale
“Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one’s talents and gifts to the benefits of others—these are the measures of success that
endure when material things have passed away.” —Gerald Ford
“Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it.” —Jim Rohn
“Leaders know one thing… if they have no one following… it’s gonna be a long walk.” —Doug Firebaugh
“Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.” —Brian Tracy
“Leadership is not a right—it’s a responsibility.” —John Maxwell
“Managers help people to see themselves as they are. Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.” —Jim Rohn
“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can
accomplish.” —Sam Walton
“Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become
successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.” —Denis Waitley
“Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.” —Zig Ziglar
“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What's in it for me?’” —Brian Tracy
“Those who will lead in this life must start against the crowd and lead forcefully until the crowd sees the results and changes their direction.” —Chris
Widener
“When you identify something that you do well, that you enjoy doing, and that supports the values that are important to you, you have defined success in your
terms.” —Nido Qubein
“You don’t become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.” —Mark Victor Hansen
Intelligence is like a river—the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
Knowledge humbles great men, astonishes the common man, and puffs up the little man.
Knowledge is power only when it is turned on.
Knowledge is power, and so is dynamite. Both are dangerous unless handled wisely.
You can always tell a well-informed man—his ideas are the same as yours.
A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things. - Chinese Proverb
If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere. Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990, American publisher,
businessman)
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, American President (16th)
Tomorrow's battle is won during today's practice. - Japanese Proverb
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""Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something, then you have the time to do something about it."" -- Anthony D'Angelo"
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes. - Chinese Proverb
"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." —James Crook
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