Powerful Benjamin Franklin Quotes on Leadership & Success

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

When the well is dry we know the value of water.

Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

When you are good to others you are best to yourself.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Beware the hobby that eats.

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.