Benjamin Franklin Quotes

How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart.

If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.

I'd make Jack Benny look like a philanthropist.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

The best way of enjoying your money is to spend it on other people. I don't need much.

I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.

I like to live well and I feel good about it because I know how much we give back. There's plenty for my family, now let's take care of the rest.

Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?

By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world.

America is the most giving nation on Earth. One of the best ways to feel better is by doing something for somebody else.

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money.

We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

I want to be a giving woman and just a nice person in general.

To help people who do not have any hope, helps you.

In order to be the best version of yourself, you have to dedicate time, effort, and support to other people who need it.

My mother was a very positive thinker; she was always active, always doing something good.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.