A Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

Thomas Jefferson

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Nothing Troublesome Willingly

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Thomas Jefferson
American - President
April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826

Troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them.

Daniel Handler

1.Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2.Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3.Never spend your money before you have it. 4.Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. 5.Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. 6.We never repent of having eaten too little. 7.Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8.How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. 9.Take things always by their smooth handle. 10.When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

Thomas Jefferson

I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process.

Jay Inslee

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

Robert Dale Owen

Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.

Anne Bishop

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

James Bryce

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. It is a corrective to the sluggishness of "the proper channels," a way of breaking through passages blocked by tradition and prejudice. It is disruptive and troublesome, but it is a necessary disruption, a healthy troublesome.

Howard Zinn

Nothing is given so willingly as advice.

Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

One must as willingly be nothing, as something.

Amy Carmichael

It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.

C. S. Lewis

It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion.

Murasaki Shikibu

Blessed the one who continually humbles himself willingly; he will be crowned by the One who willingly humbled himself for our sake.

Ephrem the Syrian

The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them