Thomas Jefferson Famous Quotations

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) was the third President of the United States, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and one of the most influential founding fathers for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States. These famous quotes dealing with goals, achievement, and success have been attributed to him.

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.
Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.