Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Mistakes

• Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Courage, Fear

• How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mistake, Becoming Better, World

• The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mistake, Men, Doe

• To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Mistake, Divine

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.88, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mistake, People, Giving

• The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, Mistake, Political

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honesty, Mistake, Character

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin .. Comprising a Series of Letters on Miscellaneous, Litarary, and Political Subjects: Written Between the Years 1753 and 1790; Illustrating the Memoirs of His Public and Private Life, and Developing the Secret History of His Political Transactions and Negociations. Now First Published from the Originals”, p.250

• It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Mistake, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.206

• Do not fear mistakes.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fear, Mistake, Politician

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