Inspiration Quote by Benjamin Franklin — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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

“Well done is better than well said.”

“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.”

“There never was a good knife made of bad steel.”

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

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”

“To follow, without halt, one aim: There is the secret of success.”

“You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.”

“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”

“To give ones self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.”

“Everything can be taken from a man but ... the last of the human freedoms to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose ones own way.”

“There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.”