“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.”

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin - “There are three things extremely...” 1

Similar quotes

“There's a sweetness in your smile that cuts through the steel of my heart like a diamond blade.-Joe Deadly Captive”

Bianca Sommerland
Read more

“To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.”

Antoine Rivarol
Read more

“Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.”

Dolly Parton
Read more

“What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?”

W.E.B. DuBois
Read more

“It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.”

Josh Billings
Read more