Quotes About Altruism

Would a coward or a thief remain a coward or a thief, even if his memory slate was wiped clean? Or could he somehow become courageous and noble? Could not knowing you had a history of cowardice allow you to suddenly become brave? Were bravery and altruism learned qualities or innate ones?

the only people qualified to help govern are those who have no interest in doing so.

For the greater good?" screamed Ashley through her tears,

To this day, a delicate balance of pure selfishness in some respects and pure selflessness in others is hardwired into our genes. For the sake of discussion, let's use extremes. Call this selfishness sociopathy. Call this selflessness altruism.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

Something as simple as an act of kindness, a compliment, a helping hand to a fellow human being, becomes a way of choosing life.

The world is a better place not for persons who love to dare but for persons who dare to love".

El amor incondicional es todo dador. La persona que verdaderamente ama, no espera nada a cambio, ni siquiera la correspondencia de su amor.

Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.

Generous people are rarely mentally ill.

be helpful to them that ain't got it so good. Dr. Dooley encouraged us at St. Mary's College in So. Bend, IN to do this. That was in 1961!

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.

If a man is forever concerned first and foremost with his own interests then he is bound to collide with others. If for any man life is a competition . . . then he will always think of other human beings as enemies, or at least as opponents who must be pushed out of the way . . . and the object of life becomes not to help others up but to push them down.[7]

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Being a pacifist to save your own life is normal, being a pacifist for the lives of others is true pacifism.

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.

Everyone has the same life purpose, which is the quest of happiness for oneself and for others.

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.

Saving a life overrides territories.

By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself

One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.