Quotes About Altruism

Start with your heart, and only good can follow!

The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

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

We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exist for other people

We are here for the sake of others

Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.

It is right in principle that those should be the best loved who have contributed most to the elevation of the human race and human life.

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

People start their lives at last when they are able to live for something other than themselves.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive

Not mastery but service," will lead people in the right way.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile

Le persone iniziano a vivere per la prima volta solo quando diventano capaci di non vivere per se stesse

Por qué debe temblar cada persona y cada país por la existencia de un país hostil? Porque cada uno busca su beneficio del momento, sin subordinarlo a la prosperidad y al bienestar de la comunidad. En todas partes se busca el camino hacia una existencia feliz y alegre por encima de la renuncia y la autolimitación.

Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.

That which we do for ourselves dies with us … that which we do for others lives forever.

The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Cruelty and compassion come with the chromosomes

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