Benjamin Franklin Quotes

You don't have to choose between doing good and doing well. It's a false choice, today more than ever.

He tried the luxury of doing good.

I believe in doing good for good's sake.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.

I have been doing good deeds since I was just a small child.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

It is by doing good that we become good.

Doing Good Is My Religion

We all, as individuals, can and should act compassionately and charitably. We can volunteer our time, energy, and dollars to help the underprivileged. We can feed the hungry, house the homeless. Most of us feel a moral and ethical responsibility to do so - to 'do unto others.'

Making money and doing good in the world are not mutually exclusive.

And learn the luxury of doing good.

To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

Frankly, I'm not religious, but I believe in the cause of humanity - doing good work.

I truly believe that philanthropy and commerce can work together.

I don't consider myself a social entrepreneur, but I'm thrilled to be doing good, if that's what I'm doing.

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

A good deed is a good deed.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?

I love helping out good people who are doing good things.