Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
—Thomas Jefferson
Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
—Thomas Jefferson
It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
—Thomas Jefferson
Never be jealous.
—Miyamoto Musashi
Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast.. Of course, slowness is bad. Really skilful people never get out of time, and are always deliberate, and never appear busy.
—Miyamoto Musashi
Never stray from the Way.
—Miyamoto Musashi
Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
—Michelangelo
Surely, you can never praise God enough for all these blessings, so plentifully showered down upon you, till you praise Him with angels and archangels, and all the company of heaven!
—John Wesley
The Tao never does anything, yet through it all things are done.
—Laozi
Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom.
—Plato
Unexpressed emotions will never die.
They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
—Sigmund Freud
What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
—Georg Hegel
“Dwell with us, Lord, as a church and people: by thy Holy Spirit reside with us and in us, and never depart from us, and then no root of bitterness shall spring up to trouble us.”
Never believe that others can show you the way to a good life and that you can’t find it yourself. Pay attention to the inner voice of your reason alone and not to the orders and suggestions of others.
—Leo Tolstoy
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
—Marcus Aurelius
I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun.
—Thomas Edison
Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind.
—Seneca
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
—Seneca
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
—Seneca
The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.
—Charlie Chaplin
Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.
—Thomas Aquinas
“I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.”
—Stephenie Meyer
A person is never closer to God than when he’s in trouble.
—Leo Tolstoy
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
—Plato
God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.
—Thomas Aquinas
Learning never exhausts the mind.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
—Leonardo Da Vinci