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Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Consistency

Browse 6 quotations connecting Benjamin Franklin with Consistency, with meanings, source notes and related themes.

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Sources represented here include Poor Richard’s Almanack, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth.

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

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

Resolution becomes useful only when followed by execution; the maxim links deliberate standards with the habit of carrying them through.

Source details

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Part II, thirteen-virtue table: Resolution. Project Gutenberg #148 (Charles W. Eliot / Harvard Classics, 1909) preserves the represented wording; the reviewed direct locator is Wikisource Section Thirty Six.

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Little strokes fell great oaks.

“Little strokes fell great oaks.”

Small repeated efforts can accomplish work that seems too large for a single burst of effort, making consistency itself a practical form of strength.

Source details

Poor Richard’s Almanack; a compact maxim about cumulative effort.

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Diligence is the mother of good luck.

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

Persistent effort improves the odds of useful results because steady work creates more opportunities for progress than waiting for favorable circumstances.

Source details

Poor Richard’s Almanack; the maxim appears in Franklin’s collected Poor Richard material.

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Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

The proverb links routine and self-discipline with health, productivity, and practical judgment.

Source details

Poor Richard’s Almanack; proverb on routine, work and practical discipline.

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Never leave that till tomorrow, which you can do to-day.

“Never leave that till tomorrow, which you can do to-day.”

Voice: Authorial persona / framed maxim · Poor Richard maxim, repeated through Father Abraham

The maxim turns prompt action into a habit: work that can reasonably be completed now should not be needlessly transferred to an uncertain tomorrow.

Source details

The Way to Wealth; a Poor Richard maxim on delay and useful employment of time.

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