Quotes About Altruism

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Your intent is important. You will pull a very deep power when you are working not just for yourself, but you are working for your enlightenment and to aid others in their enlightenment.

For me, success is being able to give back to your friends, your family, your community, those in need and the world entire.

Success is about us. Significance is about others.

disinterestedness is the brightest ray in which a noble sword can shine.

A good deed is never lost.

Notre déjeuner est un déjeuner philanthropique, et nous aurons à notre table, je l'espère du moins, deux bienfaiteurs de l'humanité. – Comment ferons-nous ? dit Debray, nous n'avons qu'un prix Montyon ? – Eh bien, mais on le donnera à quelqu'un qui n'aura rien fait pour l'avoir, dit Beauchamp. C'est de cette façon-là que d'ordinaire l'Académie se tire d'embarras.

Sauver un homme, épargner un tourment à un père, ménager la sensibilité d'une femme, ce n'est point faire une bonne oeuvre, c'est faire acte d'humanité.

that disinterestedness was the finest thing in the world.

Patriotism is most often nothing more but an extension of individual egoism

All men being equally weak, each would feel equally in need of his fellow man's support and, knowing that cooperation was the condition of that support, would readily see that his private interest was subsumed in the general interest.

Reste donc la charité particulière; celle là ne saurait produire que des effets utiles. Sa faiblesse même garantit contre ses dangers; elle soulage beaucoup de misères et n'en fait point naître.

It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.

When you help others, your own troubles aren't as heavy. In fact, you can fold them like a handkerchief and place them in your pocket. They're still there, but they're not the only thing you carry.

HELPED are those who find the courage to do at least one small thing each day to help the existence of another—plant, animal, river, or human being. They shall be joined by a multitude of the timid. H

Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing.

I could do nothing but hope that Heaven would be more merciful to us all than we are to one another.

his brother used to tell him it was what you gave out that made a man, not what you got back.

It is for one's own sake that one does good things.

Anyone can face ease and success with confidence. It is the way we face trouble and misfortune that defines us. Self-pity goes with selfishness, and there is nothing more to be deplored in a leader than that. Selfishness belongs to children, and to half-wits. A great leader puts others before himself. You would be surprised how acting so makes it easier to bear one's own troubles. In order to act like a King, one need only treat everyone else like

move from being selfish to selfless.

There are no unselfish acts. When people do something for someone else, it's always for their own personal psychological reasons.

To live for others was to live fully; to live only for yourself, a cold kind of death.