Benjamin Quotes

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Never abandon your vision. Keep reaching to further your dreams.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

You may delay, but time will not.

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

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Beware the hobby that eats.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand what I just said.

If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more ‎violence. If the Jews put ‎down their weapons ‎today, there would be no ‎more Israel'‎

In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Man is more powerful than matter.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Ignorance never settles a question.

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

When it comes to Iran and ISIS, the enemy of your enemy is your enemy!

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.

History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.

You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.

Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life.

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.