Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin- "The man who achieves makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all - doing nothing."


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

Benjamin Franklin

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Benjamin Franklin

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Benjamin Franklin

Never confuse motion with action.

Benjamin Franklin

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Benjamin Franklin

Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you will be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrow’s; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Benjamin Franklin

The man who achieves makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all – doing nothing.

Benjamin Franklin

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Benjamin Franklin

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

Time is money.

Benjamin Franklin

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

Always ask people for favors. People will ask you to return them.
That is how one painstakingly constructs a free exchange,
which is the basis of all public and private business -one polite
request at a time.

Benjamin Franklin

The doors to wisdom are never shut.

Benjamin Franklin

A small leak can sink a great ship.

Benjamin Franklin

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Benjamin Franklin

Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.

Benjamin Franklin

Life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effect of prudence, or the want of it. By playing at Chess then, we may learn: 1st, Foresight, which looks a little into futurity, and considers the consequences that may attend an action … 2nd, Circumspection, which surveys the whole Chess-board, or scene of action: – the relation of the several Pieces, and their situations; … 3rd, Caution, not to make our moves too hastily…

Benjamin Franklin

Look before, or you’ll find yourself behind.

Benjamin Franklin

He that lieth down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas

Benjamin Franklin

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Benjamin Franklin

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Benjamin Franklin

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

Benjamin Franklin

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Benjamin Franklin

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.

Benjamin Franklin

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Benjamin Franklin

Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.

Benjamin Franklin

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

Benjamin Franklin

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

Benjamin Franklin

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

I am in the prime of senility.

Benjamin Franklin

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.

Benjamin Franklin

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Benjamin Franklin

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Benjamin Franklin

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.

Benjamin Franklin

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Benjamin Franklin

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.

Benjamin Franklin

Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

Benjamin Franklin

Applause waits on success.

Benjamin Franklin

To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Benjamin Franklin

When in doubt, don’t.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Benjamin Franklin