Gratification Quote by Thomas Jefferson Download Open image “Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.” — Thomas Jefferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gratification Plant Plant a tree Posterity Serving others Tree Trees
“Time to plant trees is when you're young, So you will have them to walk among - So, aging, you can walk in shade… — James Hayford Copy Share Image
Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take. — Sir John Davies Copy Share Image
Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Sometimes you need to sacrifice an older tree for a younger tree with more potential. Sometimes you just need to burn the forest and… — Jason Brier Copy Share Image
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you… — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
Just as our forefathers saved and invested to build what we, the current generation, are enjoying today, so, too, we must plant trees so… — Lee Hsien Loong Copy Share Image
Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
May the trees continue to thrive and flourish on this earth, filling our hearts with joy and inspiration. — Stephanie Kaza Copy Share Image
To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world. — Russell Page Copy Share Image
I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
This is the great truth life has to teach us ... that gratification of our individual desires and expression of our personal preferences without… — Hortense Odlum Copy Share Image
Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When we allow ourselves to show some patience and take time to listen to the others, we may learn a lot about ourselves. Patience… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be more admirable than the manner in which for forty years he [Joseph Black] performed this useful and dignified office. His style… — Henry Peter Brougham Copy Share Image
All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
While business advertises, charity is taught to beg. While business motivates with a dollar, charity is told to motivate with guilt. While business takes… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
“We’re making our decisions … or so we think. Yet in truth, ignorance, greed, and the scourge of immediate gratification are often the things… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends. — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
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