Thomas Jefferson

“I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work the more luck I have.”

“'% R, 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.”

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

“The body achieves what the mind believes. To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.”

“It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.”

“The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.”

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

“Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfill. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union , we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.”