Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Sincerity

• Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Success, Humility, Order

• Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Truth, Fire, Flames

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”

• 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

• The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, History, Tests

• 1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution... perform without fail what you resolve. (5) Frugality... i.e. waste nothing. (6) Industry: Lose no time; be always employ'd... (7) Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently... (8) Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries... (9) Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting... (10) Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body... (11) Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles... (12) Chastity (13) Humility : Imitate Jesus.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Jesus, Humility, Thinking

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