Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

I commend to you the virtues of thrift and industry. In doing so, I do not wish you to be a "tightwad," if you will pardon that expression, or to be a freeloader, or anything of the kind.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

There are but two ways of paying debt—increase of industry in raising income. increase of thrift in laying out.

Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

There is no substitute for work.

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that 'things will come to you,' it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Without labor nothing prospers.

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Activity produces riches, and riches do not endure when it slackens.

The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.

Nothing beats hard work.

I was a hard worker.

There's no shame in hard work.

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .

Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing,--the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations.