Top 500 Benjamin Franklin Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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2. “You can do anything you set your mind to.”

— Benjamin Franklin

3. “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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4. “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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5. “You may delay, but time will not.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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6. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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7. “Well done is better than well said.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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8. “Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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9. “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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10. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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11. “For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.”

— Benjamin Franklin

12. “Time is money.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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13. “Lost time is never found again.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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14. “There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.”

— Benjamin Franklin

15. “Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.”

— Benjamin Franklin

16. “The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.”

— Benjamin Franklin

17. “One today is worth two tomorrows.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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18. “Change is the only constant in life. One’s ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life.”

— Benjamin Franklin

19. “Practice makes perfect.”

— Benjamin Franklin

20. “You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.”

— Benjamin Franklin

21. “He that can have patience can have what he will.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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22. “When you are finished changing, you're finished.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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23. “Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow.”

— Benjamin Franklin

24. “Out of adversity comes opportunity.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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25. “Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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26. “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”

— Benjamin Franklin

27. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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28. “If better is possible, good is not enough.”

— Benjamin Franklin

29. “What good shall I do this day?”

— Benjamin Franklin

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30. “Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”

— Benjamin Franklin

31. “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”

— Benjamin Franklin

32. “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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33. “Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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34. “Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.”

— Benjamin Franklin

35. “Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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36. “If you do tomorrow what you did today, you will get tomorrow what you got today.”

— Benjamin Franklin

37. “Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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38. “Do well by doing good.”

— Benjamin Franklin

39. “Eat to live, don’t live to eat.”

— Benjamin Franklin

40. “Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.”

— Benjamin Franklin

41. “I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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42. “A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one’s family.”

— Benjamin Franklin

43. “Success is the residue of planning.”

— Benjamin Franklin

44. “Life’s biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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45. “He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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46. “Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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47. “Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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48. “When you’re testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.”

— Benjamin Franklin

49. “Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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50. “Never confuse Motion with Action.”

— Benjamin Franklin