Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.
Benjamin Franklin
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Benjamin Franklin
Age: 84 †
Born: 1706
Born: January 17
Died: 1790
Died: April 17
Autobiographer
Chess Player
Designer
Dilettante
Diplomat
Economist
Editor
Freemason
Inventor
Journalist
Librarian
Musician
Physicist
Boston
Massachusetts
Silence Dogood
Ben Franklin
The First American
Franklin
Poor Richard
Running
May
Best
Runs
Wells
Strive
Well
Succeed
Advice
Winning
Race
More quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.
Benjamin Franklin
The US Constitution only guarantees your rights as a citizen, it doesn't guarantee happiness. It may take work, but if you have your rights, happiness is very possible.
Benjamin Franklin
A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.
Benjamin Franklin
He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.
Benjamin Franklin
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin
Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.
Benjamin Franklin
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Benjamin Franklin
Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.
Benjamin Franklin
I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, Without vanity I may say, etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.
Benjamin Franklin
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.
Benjamin Franklin
Display is as false as it is costly.
Benjamin Franklin
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.
Benjamin Franklin
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Benjamin Franklin
To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.
Benjamin Franklin
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
An old man in a house is a good sign.
Benjamin Franklin
