Quotes About Altruism

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

Children, we should simplify our life's needs and use the resulting savings for charity.

Take a vow for a life of service to others.

What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.

Just try to give as much as you can through your daily life to yourself and the people around you.

We are all here on earth to help others.

A life must be saved as long as it can be no matter whose it is.

Become someone's hero.

So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility

I am in favor of an idea that's been around for a number of years, which is to reward people who are willing to give a kidney and save the life of a stranger.

I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.

In essence the whole thing of life is to just keep trying to do good things. Just do good things for people.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

When you do things for others; don't expect your good deeds to be returned. Do it because you enjoy making someone's day.

Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.

Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.

Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.

Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose.

Service is what life is all about.

Every person who dedicates his or her life to something that belongs to the greater good is very meaningful.

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.