Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Integrity

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  A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Christmas, Sarcastic

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.92, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Honesty, Integrity

  "Gleanings among the Sheaves, The First Lesson", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 878-82, 1922.

• Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Christmas, Integrity, Moving

• As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Courage, Integrity, Silence

  Benjamin Franklin (1928). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Almanacks of 1733, 1749, 1756, 1757, 1758, First Written Under the Name of Richard Saunders”

• Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hope, Wisdom, Integrity

  Benjamin Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ..., 1”, p.129

• I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and I formed written resolutions . . . to practice them ever while I lived.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honesty, Integrity, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings WELD (1849). “Benjamin Franklin: his Autobiography, with a narrative of his public life and services by H. H. Weld”, p.98

• If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Integrity, Principles, Worth Living

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