Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Gratitude

• To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Gratitude, Generosity, Giving

• In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Gratitude, Priorities, Misery

  "Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams".

• When the well is dry, people know the worth of water. [so appreciate what you have while you have it]

  Benjamin Franklin

  Gratitude, People, Appreciate

• Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Pieces

  Autobiography pt. 3 (written 1788)

• When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Gratitude, Befriending, Remember

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Don't overload Gratitude; if you do, she'll kick.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Gratitude, Kicks, Overload

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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