Quotes About Altruism

You know something, Fowl? You did a good thing here. For its own sake. Not one penny of profit." Artemis grimaced. "I know! I'm appalled!

As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations tob e induced to rise, but immediately shines and is saluted by all, so do you also not wait for clappings of hands and shouts of praise tob e induced to do good, but be a doer of good voluntarily and you will be beloved as much as the sun.

As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations to be induced to rise, but immediately shines and is saluted by all: so do you also not wait for clappings of hands, and shouts and praise to be induced to do good, but be a doer of good voluntarily, and you will be beloved as much as the sun.

Now, what does the title 'citizen' mean? In this role, a person never acts in his own interest or thinks of himself alone, but, like a hand or foot that had sense and realized its place in the natural order, all its actions and desires aim at nothing except contributing to the common good.

It was thus an excellent reply that the woman made when she wanted to send a boatload of provisions to the exiled Gratilla;* for when someone said to her, 'Domitian will merely confiscate them,' she replied, 'Better that he should take them away than that I should fail to send them.

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Tôi nghÄ© là có hai lo?i quái v?t trên cõi ??i này: nh?ng k? ch? nghÄ© ??n mình và nh?ng k? ch? nghÄ© ??n ng??i khác. Nói khác Ä'i nh?ng k? kh?n n?n v? ká»· và nh?ng k? kh?n n?n v? tha.

I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me. If

The full humanization of man requires the breakthrough from the possession-centered to the activity-centered orientation, from selfishness and egotism to solidarity and altruism.

In the sphere of material things giving means being rich. Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

the qualities needed to govern are not those which are needed in order to accede to power. In order to run things smoothly, one must forget oneself and only be interested in others – particularly the most unfortunate; to get into power, one must be the greediest of men, think only of oneself and be ready to crush one's closest friends.

All beings wanted to be happy. The key is to help others by your words, actions, intentions and thoughts.

Compassion is contagious. Every moment we choose compassion, we move towards a better world.

We all are so deeply interconnected, do good for any one. That will be reflected.

Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional.

Then, once we are able to see the image of God in our neighbors, once we recognize their inherent value, we strive to help them become who they were meant to be.

I haven't known you long, but I recognize you. You're the one who pulls strangers out of fires." She paused. "It's what you do, it's who you are.

This world. This human race. It isn't divided into sexes. Everybody thinks it's divided into sexes but it isn't. It's the givers and the takers. The diners and the dinners.

compassion can be felt in the gut; mercy needs to be enacted with the body.

It's possible these men were afraid. . . . And so the first question that the priest [and] the Levite asked was, 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' . . . But then the Good Samaritan came by, and he reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?