How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Quote by Benjamin Franklin
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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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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
- A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
- The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
- All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
- Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
- We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
- It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
- Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
- The doors of wisdom are never shut.
- The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
- There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
- Honesty is the best policy.
Best Quotes
- I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
- The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
- I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.
- I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
- When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
- Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
- My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
- When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.
- When there is nothing to talk about don't force yourself to say anything because it may land you in trouble.
- It’s crazy how people say, "I rely on facts," And believe thier television sets.
- Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.