Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
Interpretation
Act with integrity and awareness, as if your actions are on display for everyone to see.
This quote by Thomas Jefferson emphasizes the importance of accountability and mindfulness in our actions. It suggests that we should carry out our duties and make decisions as if we are being observed, encouraging a standard of excellence and integrity in everything we do.
In practice
During a team meeting, you might quote this to inspire your colleagues to act with integrity.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
Ever since I was a kid, I knew I could play in the NFL because I had a knack for the game. But I can't play this game forever. When I'm finished, maybe I'll become a motivational speaker, maybe a preacher. But children need to know that life may be hard, but you can always overcome.
The project you are most scared to do is the one that holds your greatest growth.
Some gems for the greatest of them all
I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.
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