Ben Franklin Quotes – Inspiration from a Founding Father

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Well done is better than well said.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What’s a sun-dial in the shade?

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

There are no gains without pains.

Honesty is the best policy.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterward.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Beware little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.

The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Ben Franklin Quotes – Inspiration from a Founding Father part 2

Lost time is never found again.

The rotten apple spoils his companion.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

An investment in education pays the best interest.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know oneself.

There are two ways to extend a business: improve the quality of your product or the quality of your service.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it is.

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

Contentment makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

He that can have patience can have what he will.