Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Perseverance

• When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Perseverance, Evil, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson (1964). “To the Girls and Boys: Being the Delightful, Little-known Letters of Thomas Jefferson to and from His Children and Grandchildren”

• A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Perseverance, Effort, Enemy

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.311, Rowman & Littlefield

• We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress, the arms we have been compelled to assume we will use with perseverance, exerting to their utmost energies all those powers which our Creator hath given us to preserve that liberty which he committed to us in sacred deposit and to protect from every hostile hand our lives and our properties.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Perseverance, Hands, Risk

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

• To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Perseverance, Adversity, Obstacles

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.110, Modern Library

• Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Perseverance, Light, Way

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 1: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.161

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