Quotes About Altruism

Don't be selfish; don't try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Don't look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too. Philippians 2:3–4, NLT

It's not enough to just be good. We gotta do good! Even if things get scary!

if you give, you begin to live.

For her, it's profoundly absurd that people—specifically, fellow Americans . . . many of them educated, middle-class millennials who've never experienced anything like real hardship—can hate a country that frequently does so much good, both domestically and internationally.

Sometimes you have to look at the greater good, no matter what the consequences to yourself might be.

there are people in this world who either give or take. The givers walk into a room and they, believe it or not, give. They make that room brighter by offering it any type of succor that it requires. They help people when they need it. They are an ear that listens. A voice that gives advice. Or they are just simply able to share the weight of burden. They offer compassion, sympathy, a rosey smile that lifts you up. They inspire.

love was the condition that exists whenever another person's happiness and well-being is necessary for your own happiness and well-being.

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.

When I asked him, fifty-three years after the event, "Mr. Lucas, why did you jump on those grenades?" he did not hesitate with his answer: "To save my buddies.

if today you sold everything you possessed and gave it to the poor, you would indeed take a huge economic hit. But you would survive. You'd collect your next paycheck.

Knowing that your love for someone else is real when you make the decision to let them go as their happiness is the only thing that matters to you

Laying down your life for your friend(s) is the worlds highest honor as one put aside their own life, their own family and their future for their friends with no reservations, second thoughts or regrets. Imagine what you can conquer in this world if you had this built inside of you

I just...feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.

I didn't do anyting wrong. All I know is I saw two people struggling to get inside these walls and they [Minho and Alby] couldn't make it. To ignore that because of some stupid rule seemed selfish, cowardly, and... well, stupid. If you want to throw me in jail for trying to save someone's [Alby] life, then go ahead. Next time I promise I'll point at them and laugh, then go eat some of Frypan's dinner. -Thomas

In other words, a considerable portion of your extraordinary gift comes from the simple fact that you very much want to do good." -Master George

All of it had seemed right. Doing these things for the greater good.

He couldn't leave a friend to die. Even someone as cranky as Alby.

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions, but not your country's. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. - because the total emissions are set by the cap.

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

You saved whomever you could, whenever you could, regardless of their character or their relationship to you. You used heroic measures even for the least heroic individuals.