Quotes About Altruism

She needed no reward but the joy she had given.

Polly tried to conquer the bad feeling; but it worried her, till she remembered something her mother once said to her: When you feel out of sorts, try to make someone else happy, and you will soon be so yourself.

We can't do much, but we can make our little sacrifices, and ought to do it gladly.

We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.

Someone has been tortured on my behalf. Someone has been tortured on your behalf. Someone in this world will always be suffering on your behalf. If it comes your time to suffer, just remember. Someone suffered for you. That is what taking on a cloak of human flesh is all about, the willingness to hurt for another human being.

We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human, are we?

Rockefeller was fantastically charitable from boyhood.

During his first year on the job, the young clerk donated about 6 percent of his wages to charity, some weeks much more.

By 1859, when he was twenty, his charitable giving surpassed the 10 percent mark.

I made up my mind that, if I could manage it, some day I would give away crisp bills, too.

With the Neutrality Proclamation, Hamilton continued to define his views on American foreign policy: that it should be based on self-interest, not emotional attachment; that the supposed altruism of nations often masked baser motives; that individuals sometimes acted benevolently, but nations seldom did. This austere, hardheaded view of human affairs likely dated to Hamilton's earliest observations of the European powers in the West Indies.

To love a man enough to help him, you have to forfeit the warm, self-righteous glow that comes from judging.

My experience has been that altruism is invariably a means to conceal one's personal failures.

We can't help everyone but everyone can help someone.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

En lo que se divide de verdad la humanidad es entre buena y mala gente. Entre las personas que son capaces de ponerse en el lugar de los otros y sufrir con ellos y alegrarse con ellos, y los hijos de puta que sólo buscan su propio beneficio, que sólo saben mirarse la barriga. Esos que son capaces de vender a su madre, ya me entiendes" - 'La buena suerte' de Rosa Montero

The money you give away while you're alive is worth twice what you leave when you die.

Rudyard Kipling

Men often do their best work blind, for some one else's sake.

One of her vows was to save all beings, which basically means that she agreed not to become enlightened until all the other beings in this world get enlightened first.

In Zen we have a story. If your left hand gets a painful splinter, what does your right hand do? Does your right hand say, "Oh, that's too bad, but it's not my problem"? No, of course not. The right hand pulls the splinter out. This is interconnectedness.

She told me that real strength is the capacity for kindness to others, and that I should do whatever I could to find that kind of strength. She said she couldn't tell me how to go about doing that, because she never found it herself, but that people who where strong enough to be kind to others could always get by in this world.

Let us speak of this in purely human terms. Oh! how pitiable a person who has never felt the loving urge to sacrifice everything for love, who has therefore been unable to do so!

If a man in truth wills the Good then he must be willing to suffer all for the Good.