All BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Quotes about “Giving”

“When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.”
“The best doctor gives the least medicines.”
“If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.”
“Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.”
“Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.”
“Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty”
“People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.”
“It is better to take many injuries than to give one.”
“Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.”
“Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.”
“Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive”
“My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought proud; that my Pride show'd itself frequently in Conversation; that I was not content with being in the right when discussing any Point, but was overbearing & rather insolent; of which he convinc'd me by mentioning several Instances; - I determined endeavouring to cure myself ..., and I added Humility to my List, giving an extensive Meaning to the Word.”
“He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.”
“Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.”
“If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors.”
“We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.”
“Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.”
“Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain.”

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