29 Best Benjamin Franklin Quotes For A Better Life

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Get here some best inspirational Benjamin Franklin Quotes about life, knowledge, love, time, and education that will motivate you to live a better life.

Best Benjamin Franklin Quotes

1. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” ― Benjamin Franklin

2. “Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” ― Benjamin Franklin

3. “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.” ― Benjamin Franklin

4. “Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.” ― Benjamin Franklin

5. “Well done is better than well said.” ― Benjamin Franklin

6. “Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.” ― Ben Franklin

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7. “Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.” ― Benjamin Franklin

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.” ― Benjamin Franklin

9. “Life biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late” ― Benjamin Franklin

10. “Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away” ― Benjamin Franklin

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

12. “The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.” ― Benjamin Franklin

13. “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” ― Benjamin Franklin

14. “Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.” ― Benjamin Franklin

15. “Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.” ― Benjamin Franklin

16. “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” ― Benjamin Franklin

17. “Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.” ― Benjamin Franklin

18. “I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” ― Benjamin Franklin

19. “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” ― Benjamin Franklin

20. “When you are finished changing, you’re finished.” ― Benjamin Franklin

21. “When you’re testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.” ― Ben Franklin

22. “A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.” ― Benjamin Franklin

23. “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” ― Benjamin Franklin

24. “He that can have patience can have what he will.” ― Benjamin Franklin

25. “Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.” ― Benjamin Franklin

26. “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” ― Benjamin Franklin

27. “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” ― Benjamin Franklin

28. “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” ― Benjamin Franklin

29. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” ― Benjamin Franklin