What you seem to be, be really. ...
by Benjamin Franklin

What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin

Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational Self

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin

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.
- Benjamin Franklin

Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin

A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin

For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin

They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin

When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin

Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin

We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin

A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin

Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin

Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin

Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin

A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin

Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin

If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin

Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin

He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

There was never a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
- Benjamin Franklin

Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin

Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
- Benjamin Franklin

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin

He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin

Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin

Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin

One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin

People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
- Benjamin Franklin

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)

If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie