Benjamin Franklin Quotations:

Famous Words of Inspiration

Benjamin Franklin quotations continue to inspire and motivate us through his wise, unique voice.

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.

If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.

You may delay, but time will not.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

The way to be safe is never to be secure.

Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

Well done is better then well said.

God helps them that helps themselves.

Success has ruined many a man.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Work as if you were to live one hundred years; pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.

Perform without fail what you resolve.

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