Benjamin Franklin

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Anger • Behavior • Regret

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Actions • Character • Communication

By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Motivational • Procrastination • Success

There are no gains without pains.

Achievements • Motivational • Perseverance

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

Actions • Motivational

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Integrity • Money • Motivational

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Friendship • Love • Relationships

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Motivational • Productivity • Time

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Fire • Food • Home

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Beliefs • Faith • Religion

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Ethics • Fraud • Government

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Improvement • Motivational • Responsibility

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Education • Finance • Investment

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Corruption • Freedom • Leadership

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

Debt • Finance • History

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Finance • Government • Laws

Laws without morals are in vain.

Justice • Laws • Morality

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Finance • Frugality • Money

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Determination • Patience • Success

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Justice • Reason