Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Well done is better than well said.

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

There are three faithful friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

energy and persistence conquers all things

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

You may delay, but time will not.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Lost time is never found again.

Nothing preaches better than the act.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

A little neglect may breed great mischief.

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

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

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

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

The things which hurt, instruct.

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

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

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Read much, but not many books.