“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”Create visual
Benjamin Franklin
American printer, author, scientist, inventor, diplomat, and statesman of the 18th century
13 quotes in the MindQuotes library.
“Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.”Create visual
“Love your enemies, for they will tell you your faults.”Create visual
“Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.”Create visual
“Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.”Create visual
“The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.”Create visual
“What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.”Create visual
“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”Create visual
“God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!”Create visual
“To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.”Create visual
“He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.”Create visual
“He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”Create visual
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”Create visual