Benjamin Franklin Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

2. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that. Poor Richard's Almanack

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

4. Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?

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

6. If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

7. If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

8. If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing. Poor Richard's Almanack

9. In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

10. Lost Time is never found again. Poor Richard's Almanack

11. Ohne Gedankenfreiheit gibt es keine Weisheit. Und ohne Redefreiheit keine öffentliche Freiheit.

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

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

14. 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.

15. Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

16. Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore. The Way to Wealth

17. Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

18. You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

19. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success

20. It's better to swim in the sea belowThan to swing in the air and feed the crow,Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

21. Lost Time is never found again. Poor Richard's Almanack

22. Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes

23. The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

24. Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

25. You may delay, but time will not.