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.
Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for everything you do... [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run.
Sergeant first class Cory Remsburg never gives up and he does not quit.
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
A winner is a dreamer who never gives up
Seize the moment and dont squander it. Cause you never know when it all could be over.
I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you've commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you're in it. The ship's sailed, you can't turn around.
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