Coaches Hot Seat Quote of the Day – Wednesday, January 18, 2011 – Benjamin Franklin
Coaches Hot Seat Quote of the Day – Wednesday, January 18, 2011 – Benjamin Franklin
Remarks of Benjamin Franklin after the signing of the US Constitution on September 17, 1787 in the words of James Madison:
“Whilst the last members were signing it Doctor Franklin looking towards the Presidents Chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that Painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun. I have, said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.”
And
“All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.”
And
“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”
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“Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.”
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“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?”
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“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
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“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
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“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.”
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“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
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“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
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“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
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“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”
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“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”
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“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
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“When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.”
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“Where liberty is, there is my country.”
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“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”
Wikipedia Page: Benjamin Franklin
