Benjamin Franklin Quotes

We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

I want to be remembered for doing something bigger than myself and making a positive impact on the world. I want to make my life worth something and to die a legend and to make my family proud.

The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.

If you're not doing something with your life, then it doesn’t matter how long you live. If you're doing something with your life, then it doesn't matter how short your life may be. A life is not measured by years lived, but by its usefulness. If you are giving, loving, serving, helping, encouraging, and adding value to others, then you're living a life that counts!

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective.

You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

It's really not a question of how long you have on this earth; it's about what you do with it.

I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral.

My life is a contribution.

The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.

I know many lives worth living.

Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim 'She looked ten years younger,' or do we want them to say 'She lived a great life'?

Do not waste this life in vain pursuits.

God grant that I may never live to be useless!

Oh Lord, let me not live to be useless.

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world.

If your life lease, your existence was canceled tomorrow, what would you wish you had done? What are the things you would like to impact? Start on those and you can change the world. Maybe you can only make your neighborhood a little bit better, or make someone's life a little bit better. Isn't that the kind of purpose?