Quotes About Altruism

Happiness has more to do with giving than taking. Kamon 2015

People who are driven by love will overcome hardships and hurdles in ways that people who are only driven by profit never can.

By resolving the problems of others you climb life's ladder of success.

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

He has not truly lived who has not lived for others, in sympathy and in harmony with his fellows.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.

Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

Sympathy is never waisted except when you give it to yourself.

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

...and as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness.

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.

Loneliness is the teacher of giving.

To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.

Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.

La vérité est que chacun d'entre nous sait parfaitement ce que signifie la pitié et quel en est le mode d'emploi : nous l'avons tous implorée un jour ou l'autre. Mais au moment où il nous faut ouvrir la porte de la miséricorde, nous faisons comme si nous en avions perdu la clé, comme si avoir un peu de coeur revenait à humilier son prochain ou à manifester une sensiblerie démodée. (p.283)

Self-sacrifice can sometimes be a well-honed weapon that the fanatic wields for destructive emotional purposes. Moreover, those who are eager to sacrifice themselves will not find it difficult to sacrifice others.

Aquel que es feliz puede hacer dichoso a los demás. Quien no pierde ni el valor ni la confianza, jamás perecerá por la miseria.

I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try to fulfill the wishes of others, to perform miracles. I exert myself performing miracles.