{"id":6271,"date":"2019-08-30T08:02:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T14:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/?p=6271"},"modified":"2025-07-19T08:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T14:15:55","slug":"13-virtues-of-benjamin-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/13-virtues-of-benjamin-franklin\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Virtues Of Benjamin Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his book “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin,” Benjamin Franklin.\u00a0 He outlines 13 virtues in a progressive system to develop good character.<\/p>\n

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  1. Temperance<\/span><\/strong>. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Silence<\/span><\/strong>. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Order<\/span><\/strong>. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Resolution<\/span><\/strong>. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Frugality<\/span><\/strong>. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself, i.e., waste nothing.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Industry<\/span><\/strong>. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Sincerity<\/span><\/strong>. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Justice<\/span><\/strong>. Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Moderation<\/span><\/strong>. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Cleanliness<\/span><\/strong>. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. Tranquillity<\/span><\/strong>. Be not disturbed at trifles or at accidents common or unavoidable.<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. Chastity<\/span><\/strong>. Rarely use venery, but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another\u2019s peace or reputation.<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. Humility<\/span><\/strong>. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"13<\/a>Each week, work on just one virtue, then add another.\u00a0 Take one and only mark a dot if you are at fault on that virtue as shown in the diagram.\u00a0 You will cycle through the chart 4 times in a year if you do 13 weeks X 4 = 52 weeks for the year.<\/p>\n

    I have used a similar technique to develop my “integrity pulse checking<\/a>”<\/p>\n

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    In his book “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin,” Benjamin Franklin.\u00a0 He outlines 13 virtues in a progressive system to develop good character. Temperance. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. Order. Let all your things have their places; let each part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadership-innovation","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/13virtueschart.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6271"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24486,"href":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions\/24486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}