Quotes About Altruism

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

Love is selfless! Love is "you before me" decision making. Need it shorter? Love = Ub4me! There it is.

Agapas me?" The word agape means a universal love or selfless love of all human beings. Peter

Love is found when you don't have to give it. It is the emotion of generosity and kindness that is compelled by no one. It is performed on the battlefield, in our daily tasks, in the marketplace, the factories, at school, in the offices, and in the halls and corridors of government.... But only when one truly gives of himself and without compulsion.

Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.

One who really prays that this kingdom will come...[will make the effort to] keep himself in harmony with the order of the kingdom, to subject the flesh to the spirit, selfishness to altruism, and to learn to love the things that God loves. To make the will of God supreme on earth as it is in heaven is to be allied with God in the affairs of life.

Doubtless priest as well as Levite salved his conscience with ample excuse for his inhumane conduct; he may have been in a hurry, or was fearful, perhaps, that the robbers would return and make him also a victim of their outrage. Excuses are easy to find; they spring up as readily and plentifully as weeds by the wayside. When the Samaritan came along and saw the wretched state of the wounded man, he had no excuse for he wanted none. - ch. 26 of Jesus the Christ

The surest way to be happy," Eleanor wrote in an essay at school, "is to seek happiness for others.

Put ambition for the collective interest above self-interest.

What is a hero without love for mankind?

I do not want to claim a safe and comfortable life for myself that is purchased at the cost of some other woman's needs or desires.

What I desire, thou dost not possess for thyself. How canst thou render it then to another?

Do you think I bring any child into the world to live for himself alone?

Duty; friendship; compassion. Which moved him to die for you?

He had been taught that bread unshared is bread unblessed when someone else is hungry, whether man or beast, friend or stranger.

Charitable, ah! said Dirk. I pay my taxes, what more do you want?

To give love to one who needs it is a far greater pleasure than to receive it.

I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one person in the world who doesn't do bad things. And that there is one person in the world who is able to fly.

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

The memory of a good deed lives.