William Penn was the son of the admiral and politician, Sir William Penn. Penn was a writer, early member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). These inspirational William Penn quotes will change your life.
Best William Penn Quotes
- “Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.” – William Penn
- “The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.” – William Penn
- “Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.” – William Penn
- “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” – William Penn
- “Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.” – William Penn
- “Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.” – William Penn
- “Never despise what you don’t understand.” – William Penn
- “I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.” – William Penn
- “No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.” – William Penn
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“Let us see what love can do.” – William Penn
- “There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.” – William Penn
- “The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.” – William Penn
- “Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.” – William Penn
- “Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.” – William Penn
- “Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.” – William Penn
- “Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.” – William Penn
- “The best recreation is to do good.” – William Penn
- “Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.” – William Penn
- “O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.” – William Penn
- “In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.” – William Penn
- “Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.” – William Penn
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“If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.” – William Penn
- “Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.” – William Penn
- “No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.” – William Penn
- “Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion.” – William Penn
- “Death cannot kill what never dies.” – William Penn
- “Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.” – William Penn
- “Anything less than full justice is cruelty.” – William Penn
- “Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.” – William Penn
- “The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.” – William Penn
- “Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.” – William Penn
- “Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.” – William Penn
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“Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.” – William Penn
- “Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue” – William Penn
- “I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do … let me do it now.” – William Penn
- “If thou wouldn’t conquer thy weakness, thou must not gratify it.” – William Penn
- “Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.” – William Penn
- “Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.” – William Penn
- “We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.” – William Penn
- “If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.” – William Penn
- “Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obeyed.” – William Penn
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“Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.” – William Penn
- “It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbor.” – William Penn
- “We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.” – William Penn
- “For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for the suffering of it.” – William Penn
- “Next to God, thy parents.” – William Penn
- “No people can be truly happy… if abridged of the freedom of their consciences” – William Penn
- “To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.” – William Penn
- “Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.” – William Penn
- “For we put the power in the people.” – William Penn
