Inspirational Benjamin Franklin Quotes and Sayings

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One of the leading figures of early American history, Benjamin Franklin, was a statesman, author, publisher, scientist, inventor, and diplomat. Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Here are the most powerful Benjamin Franklin quotes:

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

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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Benjamin Franklin

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

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For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

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Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

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Speak little, do much.

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All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

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To cease to think creatively is to cease to live

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The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

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You only have the right to pursue happiness; you have to catch it yourself.

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All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.

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Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself.

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

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Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind’s misery.

Benjamin Franklin

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.

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He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

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

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I will speak ill of no man and speak all the good I know of everybody.

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Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

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Clean your Finger, before you point at my Spots.

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The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty.

Benjamin Franklin

He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

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The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

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Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

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

Benjamin Franklin

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

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If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Benjamin Franklin

If you give up your freedom for safety, you don’t deserve either one.

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A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.

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

Benjamin Franklin

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.

Benjamin Franklin

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

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Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations get corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

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Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

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Life, like a dramatic piece, should not only be conducted with regularity, but it should finish handsomely

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

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Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes

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Honesty is the best policy.

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Don’t cry over spilled milk.

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Originally published at https://motiveex.com on July 2, 2020.