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Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Related topics: Positive Motivational
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Don't give energy to perceived dislikes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is an undulating energy that moves through you,
within you, and radiates out of you,
and changes everything.
-Bartholomew
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil.
If they would only expend the same
amount of energy loving their fellow men,
the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
- Helen Keller
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance,
you feel a loss of energy, a loss of power,
a sense of spiritual deadness.
- Shakti Gawain
The secret to a joyful life is Simplicity -
saying NO to the latest this and the most glamorous that -
saying NO to chasing an overly-demanding career -
saying NO to the stressful demands upon your time and energy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
May You Always Be Connected With Earth and Sky -
Drawing Energy From Both.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
The loving energy that I radiate into this world
is a gift beyond my own understanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader
All the energy of the universe is mine
to use as spirit directs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago?
Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy
on account of most of them?
Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
- Dale Carnegie
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem.
It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Albert Einstein
Courage is like a soaring redwood;
Love is the seed that provides the inspiration,
and Fear is the manure that provides the raw energy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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