Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Welcome to my Benjamin Franklin quotes page. A man full of imagination and creativity he was a genius. Sit back and enjoy.

Scientist, author, inventor, activist and statesmen he's known as one of the founding fathers of the USA
1706-1790

• He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
• Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
• Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
• Energy and persistence conquer all things.
• I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
• If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
• To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
• Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
• Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.
• Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
• Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
• Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
• Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
• He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

It was good to have you on my Benjamin Franklin quotations page. Till next time. To your success!

Return From Benjamin Franklin Quotes To Quotes By Famous People

Return From Benjamin Franklin Quotes To Homepage