Charity Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Charity Died Giving to charity Karma Money Philanthropic Philanthropy Philanthropy giving Rich Said
“Despite the pecuniary spirit of Poor Richard’s sayings and the penny-saving reputation they later earned Franklin, he did not have the soul of an… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“When a rich man dies it is more complex than when a poor man dies. A rich man doesn't simply quit living. He quits… — Elliott Chaze Copy Share Image
“It was a life that had left him rich in experience, but poor in goods of the world.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“They died,but not as lavish as their blood, Or thinking death itself was simply good; Their wishes neither were to live nor die, But… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“If I knew he loved me for my wealth, I would have told him I was richer.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
“I have always found that it is far more convenient to be rich rather than to be poor.” — Amanda Quick Copy Share Image
“Who is truly wealthy? That man to whom the agreeable and disagreeable, wealth and woe, past and future, are the same. What is the… — Chitra Lekha Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
“The rich died, too, disappointing all those who thought that somehow they didn't. Peter Lakes had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will sill pretty much depend on… — Michael Prichard Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The greatest charity you can contribute to is yourself. Instead of spending a dollar to help feed hungry children, why not spend that dollar… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity,… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
“It takes a female to have a baby, It takes a woman to raise a child, It takes a mother to raise them correctly,… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I own about 300 pairs of shoes. When I start to go over 300, I have mini-sales from my closet and give the money… — Stacy London Copy Share Image