55 Powerful Quotes from Benjamin Franklin You Need to Know. 
Benjamin Franklin was America's first millionaire, an influential founding father, a remarkable statesman, diplomat, and investor.
Below are 55 great quotes from the legend that you need to know.
Below are 55 great quotes from the legend that you need to know.
1. Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
2. Well done is better than well said.
3. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
4. It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
2. Well done is better than well said.
3. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
4. It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
5. We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
6. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
7. Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
8. Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
6. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
7. Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
8. Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
9. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
10. Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
11. In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
10. Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
11. In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
12. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
13. Lost time is never found again.
14. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
15. When in doubt, don't.
13. Lost time is never found again.
14. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
15. When in doubt, don't.
16. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
17. Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
18. Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
19. You may delay, but time will not.
17. Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
18. Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
19. You may delay, but time will not.
20. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
21. Honesty is the best policy.
22. He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
23. If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
21. Honesty is the best policy.
22. He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
23. If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
24. Energy and persistence conquer all things.
25. Diligence is the mother of good luck.
26. Time is money.
27. When you're finished changing, you're finished.
28. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
29. He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
25. Diligence is the mother of good luck.
26. Time is money.
27. When you're finished changing, you're finished.
28. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
29. He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
30. There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
31. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterward.
32. It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
31. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterward.
32. It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
33. He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
34. Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
35. One today is worth two tomorrows.
36. Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
34. Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
35. One today is worth two tomorrows.
36. Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
37. Don't throw stones at your neighbors if your windows are glass.
38. I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
39. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
40. Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
38. I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
39. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
40. Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
41. At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
42. He that can have patience can have what he will.
43. Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
44. Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
42. He that can have patience can have what he will.
43. Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
44. Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
45. The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
46. Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
47. Half a truth is often a great lie.
46. Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
47. Half a truth is often a great lie.
48. Never confuse motion with action.
49. Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
50. It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
49. Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
50. It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
51. God helps those who help themselves.
52. Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
53. To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
54. Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
55. Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.
52. Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
53. To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
54. Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
55. Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.
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