Quotes About Altruism

There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.

I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world.

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.

Kindness is the supreme intelligence.

Service of self is best developed in dealings of service to others.

I will always welcome joyfully any opportunity that comes my way to be of service to you

True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

You don't have to be rich to be generous. You have to be generous to be generous.

True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.

It's not about you. It's about them.

There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

You're never more like Jesus than when you're giving.

If you despise your people, you will disregard them.If you hate your people, you will harm them.If you esteem your people, you will serve them.If you love your people, you will even die for them.

Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless

Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.

Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.

And learn the luxury of doing good.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.

Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs.