Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Browse 65 quotes from Benjamin Franklin, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”
“When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.”
“He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.”
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
“He who rises late, trots all day long.”
“Fatigue is the best pillow.”
“A long life is not good enough, but a good life is long enough.”
“Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”
“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”
“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.”
“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is knowledge of our own ignorance.”
“Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?”
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
“The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.”
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
“The things that hurt, instruct.”
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”
“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.”
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
“He that cannot obey, cannot command.”
“God helps those that help themselves.”
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”
“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.”
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
“A little neglect may breed great mischief.”
“When in doubt, don't.”
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
“To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.”
“One today is worth two tomorrows.”
“You may delay, but time will not.”
“Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.”
“Well done is better than well said.”
“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.”
“He that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.”
“The early morning has gold in its mouth.”
“A place for everything, everything in its place.”
“Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
“Lost time is never found again.”
“Time is money.”
“Little strokes fell great oaks.”
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
