Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Charity

• The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Positive, Forgiveness, Respect

• A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Leadership, Teamwork

  Benjamin Franklin (2010). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition”, p.11, University of Pennsylvania Press

• I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'

  Benjamin Franklin

  Karma, Charity, Philanthropy

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.2

• He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Kindness, Done

  Benjamin Franklin (2016). “Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.181, Benjamin Franklin

• To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fire, People, Naked

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

• Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Charity, May, Hope And Faith

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Correspondence”, p.40

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