Benjamin Franklin Work Quotations

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

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

The eye of a master will do more work than both his hands

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me; but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.

Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

Doing your best means never stop trying.

Handle your tools without mittens.

I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.

Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.

Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

If gymnastics were easy, it would be called football. 10% talent, 90% hard workEnergy and persistence conquer all things.

Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you will be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrow's; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

They that study much, ought not to eat so much as those that work hard, their Digestion being not so good.

An innocent Plowman is more worthy than a vicious Prince.