156 Quotes By Benjamin Franklin


I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin Franklin on morning

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin on motivational

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin on motivational

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 on nature

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin Franklin on nature

He that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin Franklin on patience

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin on peace

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin Franklin on peace

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Benjamin Franklin on peace

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin on peace

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin Franklin on religion

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin Franklin on respect

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

Applause waits on success.
Benjamin Franklin on success

Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin on time

Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin on time

You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin on time

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin on time

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin on time

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin Franklin on time