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.

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

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

Well done is better than well said.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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

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

energy and persistence conquers all things

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

Lost time is never found again.

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.

Little strokes, fell great oaks.

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.

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.

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.

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

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.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

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

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.

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

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

The things which hurt, instruct.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

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

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

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

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

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

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

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

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

Read much, but not many books.

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

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

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