117 Best Benjamin Franklin Quotes To Be Successful
This collection of Benjamin Franklin quotes is the best resource of wisdom to lead a successful life.
One of America’s founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin had a huge
impact on the history we know today. His determination and moral
consciousness made him one of America’s most iconic thinkers and
‘do-ers’ in history.
Besides being a politician, the talented and hardworking Franklin was
a leading author, printer, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic
activist, statesman, and diplomat.
If you want to be successful then these Benjamin Franklin quotes
about health, learning, time, success and more provide profound wisdom
and are a great foundation to start making your dreams a reality.
117 Benjamin Franklin Quotes
1. “Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.” – Benjamin Franklin
2. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin
3. “Any fool can criticise, condemn and complain – and most fools do.” – Benjamin Franklin
4. “Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.” – Benjamin Franklin
5. “It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.” – Benjamin Franklin
6. “Well done is better than well said.” – Benjamin Franklin
7. “To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.” – Benjamin Franklin
8. “A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.” – Benjamin Franklin
9. “There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.” – Benjamin Franklin
10. “He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” – Benjamin Franklin
11. “Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.” – Benjamin Franklin
12. “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” – Benjamin Franklin
13. “It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.” – Benjamin Franklin
14. “Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.” – Benjamin Franklin
15. “If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.” – Benjamin Franklin
16. “Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.” – Benjamin Franklin
17. “Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?” – Benjamin Franklin
18. “If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.” – Benjamin Franklin
19. “When in doubt, don’t.” – Benjamin Franklin
20. “If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.” – Benjamin Franklin
21. “Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.” – Benjamin Franklin
22. “Time is money.” – Benjamin Franklin
23. “Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin
24. “A penny saved is a penny earned.” – Benjamin Franklin
25. “Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.” – Benjamin Franklin
26. “Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.” – Benjamin Franklin
27. “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” – Benjamin Franklin
28. “Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.” – Benjamin Franklin
29. “Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.” – Benjamin Franklin
30. “When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.” – Benjamin Franklin
31. “Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” – Benjamin Franklin
32. “He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.” – Benjamin Franklin
33. “He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.” – Benjamin Franklin
34. Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in
its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one
wants. – Benjamin Franklin
35. “He that won’t be counselled can’t be helped.” – Benjamin Franklin
36. “Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.” – Benjamin Franklin
37. “Remember that credit is money.” – Benjamin Franklin
38. “So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since
it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind
to do.” – Benjamin Franklin
39. “It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I
would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.” – Benjamin Franklin
40. “Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.” – Benjamin Franklin
41. “Observe all men, thyself most.” – Benjamin Franklin
42. “Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.” – Benjamin Franklin
43. “He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.” – Benjamin Franklin
44. “Industry need not wish.” – Benjamin Franklin
45. “He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.” – Benjamin Franklin
46. “I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are
brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of
things.” – Benjamin Franklin
47. “The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.” – Benjamin Franklin
48. “If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.” – Benjamin Franklin
49. “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin
50. “Never confuse motion with action.” – Benjamin Franklin
51. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin
52. “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” – Benjamin Franklin
53. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin
54. “It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.” – Benjamin Franklin
55. “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” – Benjamin Franklin
56. “The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.” – Benjamin Franklin
57. “One today is worth two tomorrows.” – Benjamin Franklin
58. “He that can have patience can have what he will.” – Benjamin Franklin
59. “Honesty is the best policy.” – Benjamin Franklin
60. “A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.” – Benjamin Franklin
61. “Diligence is the mother of good luck.” – Benjamin Franklin
62. “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” – Benjamin Franklin
63. “Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.” – Benjamin Franklin
64. “Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.” – Benjamin Franklin
65. “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.” – Benjamin Franklin
66. “Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.” – Benjamin Franklin
67. “I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about
the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making
them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.” – Benjamin Franklin
68. “God helps those who help themselves.” – Benjamin Franklin
69. “Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?” – Benjamin Franklin
70. “Fatigue is the best pillow.” – Benjamin Franklin
71. “I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.” – Benjamin Franklin
72. “To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.” – Benjamin Franklin
73. “Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.” – Benjamin Franklin
74. “A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.” – Benjamin Franklin
75. “When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.” – Benjamin Franklin
76. “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.” – Benjamin Franklin
77. “He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” – Benjamin Franklin
78. “There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our
wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and
it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to
be easier.” – Benjamin Franklin
79. “If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.” – Benjamin Franklin
80. “Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.” – Benjamin Franklin
81. “Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.” – Benjamin Franklin
82. “Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.” – Benjamin Franklin
83. “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” – Benjamin Franklin
84. “The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.” – Benjamin Franklin
85. “When you’re testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.” – Benjamin Franklin
86. “Speak little, do much.” – Benjamin Franklin
87. “Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.” – Benjamin Franklin
88. “Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.” – Benjamin Franklin
89. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” – Benjamin Franklin
90. “For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.” – Benjamin Franklin
91. “Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.” – Benjamin Franklin
92. “While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.” – Benjamin Franklin
93. “We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!” – Benjamin Franklin
94. “There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means
or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.” – Benjamin Franklin
95. “Drive thy business or it will drive thee.” – Benjamin Franklin
96. “You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin
97. “If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away
from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
98. “Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.” – Benjamin Franklin
99. “If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.” – Benjamin Franklin
100. “Employ your time well, if you mean to get leisure.” – Benjamin Franklin
101. “Do you love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.” – Benjamin Franklin
102. “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
103. “If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.” – Benjamin Franklin
104. “If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either
write something worth reading or do things worth writing.” – Benjamin Franklin
105. “Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.” – Benjamin Franklin
106. “Those things that hurt, instruct.” – Benjamin Franklin
107. “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” – Benjamin Franklin
108. “Joy is not in things, it is in us.” – Benjamin Franklin
109. “The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an
opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good
example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make
her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.” – Benjamin Franklin
110. “If you want to become rich, never waste your time and money.” – Benjamin Franklin
111. “You can do anything you set your mind to.” – Benjamin Franklin
112. “Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.” – Benjamin Franklin
113. “Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.” – Benjamin Franklin
114. “He that lieth down with dogs will rise up with fleas.” – Benjamin Franklin
115. “The cat in gloves catches no mice.” – Benjamin Franklin
116. “Eat to live, and not live to eat.” – Benjamin Franklin
117. “The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” – Benjamin Franklin
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