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Quotes About Altruism

When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.
~ Haniel Long
Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Life is supposed to be lived for God and for others.
~ Jerry Falwell
If you want your life to get better, sometimes the best thing you can do is to help improve somebody else's life.
~ Joel Osteen
My whole concept in life is if you're not using it, you should give it to somebody else so they can use it.
~ Charlize Theron
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection.
~ Frederick Lenz
My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today.
~ Andre Braugher
Altruism is written in everlasting and resplendent character on the Cross of Christ, and it was at Calvary that the centre of life was shifted from selfishness to sacrifice.
~ Jon Weber
To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.
~ Katherine Cecil Thurston
The real joy in life comes from giving. It comes from service. It comes from doing things for other people. That is what is so powerful about this. Nothing will make you happier than giving.
~ Marc Benioff
I think the great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing and alive, are the great givers.
~ Mark Victor Hansen
The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Whatever you do in your life, try to become a kind, and wise human being.
~ Nawang Khechog
Kindness Day should be everyday of your life.
~ Patsy Kensit
Divine opportunities are all around you every day. Make a conscious effort today to show kindness to someone.
~ O. S. Hawkins
Live, let live, and help live
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charity is not an act but a way of life, a condition of the heart.
~ Robert L. Millet
I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.
~ Sri Chinmoy
I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.
~ Therese of Lisieux
Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.
~ Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom.
~ Anne Rivers Siddons
I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.
~ Bill Gates
When you make Service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar