More That a Few of My Favorite Benjamin Franklin Quotes

 

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

"There is no good war or bad Peace."

"Beer is proof that god wants us to be happy."

"Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack."

"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, fools that don't have brains enough to be honest."

"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."

"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn."

"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."

"Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise."

"Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood."

"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect."

"My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconvenience, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension."

"Humility makes great men twice honorable."

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."

"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."

"Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation."

"If you want something done, ask a busy person."

"A place for everything, everything in its place."

 "The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty."

 "People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."

 "Without justice, courage is weak."

"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to god."

"He that speaks much, is much mistaken."

"The constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

"The Doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance."

"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle."

"The doors of wisdom are never shut."

 "The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."

"He that cannot obey, cannot command."

 A Few of My Favorite Quotes About Money from Benjamin Franklin

 "Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle."

 "The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade."

"Industry pays debts, while despair increases them."

 "A penny saved is a penny earned."

"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."

"Remember that credit is money."

"No gains without pains." 

 "The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one."

 "Plow deep while sluggards sleep."

"If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas." 

A Few of My Favorite Quotes About Taking Action from Benjamin Franklin

"Lose no time; be always employed in something useful."

 "For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned."

 "Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."

"By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still."

"Well done is better than well said."

 "He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."

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

"All Mankind is divided into three classes; those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

Way More Than a Few of my Favorite Napoleon Hill Quotes

"Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious."

"People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often."

"You can be anything you want to be, if only you beleive with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

"The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help."

"Faith is the 'eternal elixir' which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought! Faith is the starting point of all of acumulation of riches! Faith is the basis of all 'miracles' and all mysteries which cannot be analyzed by the rules of science! Faith is the only known antidote for failure."

"Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession."

 

"When defet comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal."

"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."

"No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative."

"Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat."

"A Positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done."

"Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly."

 

Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along."

"It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind."

"If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge."

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the reult of selfishness."

""The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind."

"If you are worried or afraid of anything, there is something in your mental attitude that needs correction."

"Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire."

"If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome."

"I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess."

"If it isn't your job to do it, perhaps it is your opportunity."

"It isn't defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you."

"The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others."

"All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.""Success attracts success and failure attracts failure because of the law of attraction."

"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."

"Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and consistently direct them towards your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals."

"You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement."

"If you were your own employer, would you be entirely satisfied with the day's work you have done today?"

"If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no desire of your own."

"The happiest people are those who have learned to mix play with their work and to bind the two together with enthusiasm."

"If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you already have, you will obtain results a great deal faster."

"No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of great fortune, without the cooperation of other people."

"Attend well to your character, and you reputation will look out for itself."

"There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering a useful service."

"Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty."

"No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let them."

"Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown."

"Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another."

"Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time."

"You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form."

"Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end."

"The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas."

"The primary reason for failure is that people do not develop new plans to replace those plans that didn't work."

"There is a difference between failure and temorary defeat."

"Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity,"

"Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire."

"Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it."

"If you can conceive something in your mind and believe it to be true, then you can achieve it."

"Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it."

"Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative  influence of other people."

"A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them."

"Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort,"

"Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called failures are only temporary defeats."

"Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances."

"If you don't want your life to be 'messed up', don't fool around with those who have messed up theirs."

"Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought."

"When you close the door of your mind to negitive thoughts, the door opportunity opens to you."

"The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planing and action stage."

"Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit."

"You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own enviroment. You can make your life what you want it to be."

"Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing."

"It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how mush he recieves for his service, or the number of people he may be servicing or the class of people served."

"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to posses superhuman powers to achieve."

"One must marry one's feeling to ones beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life."

"A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.""It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project"

"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desires and begin at once, whether your ready or not, to put this plan into action."

"Fears are nothing more than a state of mind."

"Start going the extra mile and opportunity will follow you."

"The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face."

"If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance."

"If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions."

"Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. you must make a move to be victorious."

"Life reflects your own thoughts back to you."

"Nothing is impossible to the person who backs desire with enduring faith."

"Indecision is the seedling of fear."

"Keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be."

"Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis."

"Live each day as if it were your last, and you'll develop a keen respect for opportunity."

"The man who actually knows just what he wants in life has already gone a long way toward attaining it."

"Strength, both physical and spiritual, is the product of struggle!"

"Failure is a keen trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes a great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach."

"To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to 'know' is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do."

"The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind."

"Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order."

"Both success and failure are largly the result of habit."

"One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word impossible."

"We see see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving."

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."

"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."

"Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life."

"Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.""Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect."

"Every man is what he is, because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind."

"Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure."

"Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting."

"Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life; not what you don't want."

"No one's ready for a thing, until they beleive that they can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief and not mere hope or wish."

"The man who dose more that he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does."

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.""First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you."

"A goal is a dream with a deadline."

"Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence."

"When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds."

We All Take Baby Steps Everyday

We are all going somewhere. The problem seems to be where we are going. Most of the time a day goes by and we have taken a baby step in one direction…then the next day, we take a baby step in another direction. 

That's going nowhere fast. That's exactly how you got where you are today…one baby step at a time. 

There's an old saying, "Those who fail to plan, plan to fail".

You certainly need to know where you want to go before you can get there. The only place you will arrive is "nowhere-city" without a plan…a well-thought-out, written-down-in-black-and-white plan….a roadmap to success.

First Baby Step

Decide exactly what your long term goal is…no maybes, or ifs. Write it down in one short sentence. "I want a successful online business", "I want to be able to send my kids to college" are some examples.

Put one foot in front of the other and soon you'll be walking through the door you have decided to head for.

Second Baby Step

Map out the way that you can achieve that long term goal. Write down the baby steps it will take to get there. What you can do each day to make it all happen. 

Your list might start with, "Make an appointment with a financial planner" or "Get information about starting an online business". Make a plan to stick with for the long haul.

Baby Step Three

Start to put it into action, one baby step after another. A plan without the action to back it up is just a useless piece of paper. 

Way More than a few of My Favorite Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

"True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it."

"Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy."

"You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserves love and affection."

"The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see truth in fragment and different points of vision."

"Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them; a desire, a dream, a vision."

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory."

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony."

  "It is easy to stand in a crowd but it takes courage to stand alone."

"A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing yourself."

"The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane."

"Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds, not words."

"Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral."

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."

"It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts."

"Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

"There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results."

"Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity."

"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim a purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."

"My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from god as my successes and my talents and lay them both at his feet."

"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow in."

"Speak only if it improves upon the silence."

"Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances."

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"Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly."

"There is no 'way to peace.' there is only 'peace."

"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them."

"In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all."

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"Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable."

"The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer."

"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."

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"Truth never damages a cause that is just."

"Whenever you are confronted with an opponet conquer him with love."

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."

"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. The next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

"The future depends on what you do today."

"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

"Hate the sin, love the sinner."

"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."

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"Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become you habits, your habits become you values, your values become your destiny."

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

"Where there is love there is life."

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."

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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end up really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even it I may not have it in the beginning."

"It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. Buy that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know the what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no results."

"I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them."

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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment."

"It is not that I do not see angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as agelessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by consistent practice."

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