William Penn Inspirational Quotes

Quotes about: Inspirational

• The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

• The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Jealousy, Envy

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.188

• No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  No Cross, No Crown (1669) See Proverbs 212

• I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Despise

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.147

• The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs,
  which are brief and pithy.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Lying, Pithy

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.448

• Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.38, Courier Corporation

• The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Ambition, Power

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.849

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