10 Inspiring Quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
You may delay, but time will not.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Well done is better than well said.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
Experience is the teacher of all things.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.
In this world, nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Honesty is the best policy.
The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.
Many people die at twenty-five and aren’t buried until they are seventy-five.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Never confuse motion with action.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterwards.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink the greatest ship.
Work as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Eat to live, don’t live to eat.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know oneself.
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Half the truth is often a great lie.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?
He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.