Great men and wise sayings
A collection of quotes from renowned individuals throughout history, provided with their Korean translations.

Thomas Jefferson - I find the harder I work, the more luck I have.

Thomas Jefferson - I find the harder I work, the more luck I have.

Thomas Jefferson

"I find the harder I work, the more luck I have." - Thomas Jefferson.

"๋…ธ๋ ฅํ• ์ˆ˜๋ก ํ–‰์šด์€ ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ๋‹ค." - ํ† ๋จธ์Šค ์ œํผ์Šจ.


Thomas Jefferson – "I Find the Harder I Work, the More Luck I Have."

Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States. Born in Virginia in 1743 into a prominent planter family, he became one of the most accomplished and versatile figures in American history. Jefferson was a lawyer, diplomat, architect, philosopher, inventor, and passionate advocate for democracy and individual liberty. He served as Governor of Virginia, Minister to France, Secretary of State under George Washington, and Vice President under John Adams before his presidency from 1801 to 1809. His achievements include the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the size of the nation, and the founding of the University of Virginia. Despite contradictions in his legacy, particularly regarding slavery, Jefferson remains one of the most influential thinkers in American political philosophy. He died on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

ํ† ๋จธ์Šค ์ œํผ์Šจ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ฑด๊ตญ์˜ ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€์ด์ž ๋…๋ฆฝ์„ ์–ธ์„œ์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ์ €์ž, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์ œ3๋Œ€ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1743๋…„ ๋ฒ„์ง€๋‹ˆ์•„์˜ ์ €๋ช…ํ•œ ๋†์žฅ์ฃผ ๊ฐ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚œ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋‹ค์žฌ๋‹ค๋Šฅํ•˜๊ณ  ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚œ ์ธ๋ฌผ ์ค‘ ํ•œ ๋ช…์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œํผ์Šจ์€ ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ, ์™ธ๊ต๊ด€, ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€, ์ฒ ํ•™์ž, ๋ฐœ๋ช…๊ฐ€์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜์™€ ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ์ž์œ ๋ฅผ ์—ด์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ์˜นํ˜ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ„์ง€๋‹ˆ์•„ ์ฃผ์ง€์‚ฌ, ํ”„๋ž‘์Šค ๊ณต์‚ฌ, ์กฐ์ง€ ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด ํ•˜์˜ ๊ตญ๋ฌด์žฅ๊ด€, ์กด ์• ๋ค์Šค ํ•˜์˜ ๋ถ€ํ†ต๋ น์„ ์—ญ์ž„ํ•œ ํ›„ 1801๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 1809๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ง์„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์—…์ ์—๋Š” ๊ตญํ†  ๋ฉด์ ์„ ๋‘ ๋ฐฐ๋กœ ๋Š˜๋ฆฐ ๋ฃจ์ด์ง€์• ๋‚˜ ๋งค์ž…๊ณผ ๋ฒ„์ง€๋‹ˆ์•„ ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต ์„ค๋ฆฝ์ด ํฌํ•จ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ๋…ธ์˜ˆ์ œ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ทธ์˜ ์œ ์‚ฐ์— ๋ชจ์ˆœ์ด ์žˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ์ œํผ์Šจ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ •์น˜ ์ฒ ํ•™์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์ƒ๊ฐ€ ์ค‘ ํ•œ ๋ช…์œผ๋กœ ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1826๋…„ 7์›” 4์ผ, ๋…๋ฆฝ์„ ์–ธ์„œ 50์ฃผ๋…„์ด ๋˜๋Š” ๋‚  ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ๋– ๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Thomas Jefferson


The Connection Between Work and Luck

Jefferson's observation reveals a profound truth that successful people throughout history have discovered: luck and effort are not separate forces but deeply intertwined. What appears to be luck — being in the right place at the right time, meeting the right person, or discovering an unexpected opportunity — often results from consistent hard work. The more you work, the more you expose yourself to possibilities. The more prepared you are, the more likely you are to recognize and seize opportunities when they appear. What others call luck is frequently the fruit of invisible labor, persistent preparation, and relentless effort that positions you for success.

์ œํผ์Šจ์˜ ์ด ๊ด€์ฐฐ์€ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์„ฑ๊ณตํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•œ ์‹ฌ์˜คํ•œ ์ง„์‹ค์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋ƒ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค: ํ–‰์šด๊ณผ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์€ ๋ณ„๊ฐœ์˜ ํž˜์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๊นŠ์ด ์–ฝํ˜€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ–‰์šด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ — ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ๋•Œ์— ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์žฅ์†Œ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ, ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์„ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ, ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜ ๋ชปํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ — ์€ ์ข…์ข… ๊พธ์ค€ํ•œ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ์ผํ• ์ˆ˜๋ก ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์— ๋…ธ์ถœ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋” ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์„์ˆ˜๋ก ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚  ๋•Œ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ธ์‹ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žก์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋” ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ํ–‰์šด์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ข…์ข… ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋…ธ๋™, ๋ˆ์งˆ๊ธด ์ค€๋น„, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์„ ์„ฑ๊ณต์˜ ์œ„์น˜์— ๋†“๋Š” ๋Š์ž„์—†๋Š” ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์˜ ์—ด๋งค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Thomas Jefferson


Jefferson's Relentless Work Ethic

Jefferson himself embodied this principle throughout his extraordinary life. His accomplishments did not come from privilege alone but from tireless dedication to learning and action. He woke before dawn, maintained detailed records of everything from weather to gardening, read voraciously in multiple languages, and worked on countless projects simultaneously. He designed Monticello, invented practical devices, studied science, practiced law, engaged in diplomacy, and wrote extensively on politics and philosophy. His "luck" in being chosen to draft the Declaration of Independence came after years of demonstrated writing ability and political engagement. Every seemingly fortunate moment in his career was built upon a foundation of extraordinary effort and preparation.

์ œํผ์Šจ ์ž์‹ ์ด ๋น„๋ฒ”ํ•œ ์‚ถ ์ „์ฒด์—์„œ ์ด ์›์น™์„ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์—…์ ์€ ํŠน๊ถŒ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜จ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋ฐฐ์›€๊ณผ ํ–‰๋™์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์น  ์ค„ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๋Š” ํ—Œ์‹ ์—์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ ์ „์— ์ผ์–ด๋‚ฌ๊ณ , ๋‚ ์”จ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ •์› ๊ฐ€๊พธ๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ƒ์„ธํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ก์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์–ธ์–ด๋กœ ํƒ๋…ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋™์‹œ์— ์ง„ํ–‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชฌํ‹ฐ์ฒผ๋กœ๋ฅผ ์„ค๊ณ„ํ•˜๊ณ , ์‹ค์šฉ์ ์ธ ์žฅ์น˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๋ช…ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ณผํ•™์„ ์—ฐ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ฒ•์„ ์‹ค๋ฌดํ•˜๊ณ , ์™ธ๊ต์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ •์น˜์™€ ์ฒ ํ•™์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ €์ˆ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋…๋ฆฝ์„ ์–ธ์„œ ์ดˆ์•ˆ์„ ์ž‘์„ฑํ•˜๋„๋ก ์„ ํƒ๋œ ๊ทธ์˜ "ํ–‰์šด"์€ ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ž…์ฆ๋œ ๊ธ€์“ฐ๊ธฐ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์ •์น˜์  ์ฐธ์—ฌ ํ›„์— ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์—์„œ ๊ฒ‰๋ณด๊ธฐ์— ํ–‰์šด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์€ ๋น„๋ฒ”ํ•œ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์ค€๋น„์˜ ํ† ๋Œ€ ์œ„์— ์„ธ์›Œ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Thomas Jefferson


Creating Your Own Luck Through Effort

Jefferson's wisdom offers practical guidance for anyone seeking success. Stop waiting for luck to find you and start creating conditions where luck can emerge. This means showing up consistently, developing skills even when no one is watching, building relationships before you need them, and preparing for opportunities that have not yet appeared. It means embracing work not as burden but as the very mechanism through which fortune enters your life. The next time you see someone enjoying what appears to be incredible luck, look closer — you will likely find years of hard work behind it. Your luck is waiting to be manufactured through your effort. The harder you work, the luckier you will become.

์ œํผ์Šจ์˜ ์ง€ํ˜œ๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ณต์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์‹ค์šฉ์ ์ธ ์ง€์นจ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ–‰์šด์ด ์ฐพ์•„์˜ค๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”๊ณ  ํ–‰์šด์ด ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๊ณ , ์•„๋ฌด๋„ ๋ณด์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๋•Œ๋„ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „์— ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ , ์•„์ง ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ์„ ์ง์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ํ–‰์šด์ด ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ์‚ถ์— ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ ๋ฉ”์ปค๋‹ˆ์ฆ˜์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์Œ์— ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฏฟ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ํ–‰์šด์„ ๋ˆ„๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์ผ ๋•Œ, ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด์„ธ์š” — ๊ทธ ๋’ค์—๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„์˜ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ํ–‰์šด์€ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง€๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋” ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ์ผํ• ์ˆ˜๋ก, ๋” ์šด์ด ์ข‹์•„์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.




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