"The worst day in a man's life..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
More by Thomas Jefferson
“In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it. For the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.”
“Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.”
“I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.”
More on Ethics
“The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.”
“Violence begins with the fork.”
“Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.”
More on Work Ethic
“It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves”
“Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.”
“I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!”