Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Office

• Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Pain, Office

• He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Office, Honor

  Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The Way to Wealth”, p.2

• As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but if I had, the only thanks that I should desire are that you would always be ready to serve any other person that may need your assistance, and so let good offices go around, for humankind are all of a family. As for my own part, when I am employed in serving others I do not look upon myself as conferring favors but paying debts.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Letting Go, Kindness, Office

• O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Powerful, Father

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1850). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Published Verbatim from the Original Manuscript, by His Grandson, William Temple Franklin”, p.79

• You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Giving, Office

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.234, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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