Quotes About Altruism

I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.

On the other hand, charitable donation, at almost 5 per cent of GDP, is one of the highest rates in the world.

Amas lo inhumano.

Take upon oneself as much humanity as possible. There is the correct formula.

Wealth is not to feed our egos, but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.

I see what the joy is; it is the joy of always loving, it is the joy of losing my own life in love to others.

We ought not to please ourselves. For even Christ pleased not Himself. Self-denial is the law of his life.

Around the world his pity flies, its wingspan as wide as an albatross's.

It is the sincere horror of it that gets others motivated, so say Watson and Andrews; the dysfunction caused by the onset of depression may serve a useful function in that it is "a device for the elicitation of altruism.

If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.

There are no martyrs only volunteers.

Our common humanity is reason enough to protect our fellow human beings from coming to harm.

Being wisely selfish and being selfless can amount to very much the same thing. There are centuries of anecdotal testimony on this point—and, as we will see, the scientific study of the mind has begun to bear it out. There is now little question that how one uses one's attention, moment to moment, largely determines what kind of person one becomes. Our minds—and lives—are largely shaped by how we use them.

which is more moral: helping people purely out of concern for their suffering, or helping them because you think the creator of the universe will reward you for it? Mother

The fact that faith has motivated many people to do good things does not suggest that faith is itself a necessary (or even a good) motivation for goodness.

While feeling love for others is surely one of the greatest source of happiness, it entails a very deep concern for the happiness and suffering of those we love. Our own search for happiness, therefore, provides a rationale for self-sacrifice and self-denial.

It is within our capacity to recognize the nature of thoughts, to awaken from the dream of being merely ourselves and, in this way, to become better able to contribute to the well-being of others.

We must love all human beings, giving even our last drop of blood for all our siblings of this great human family.

It hurts me to know that there are other women out there in the world that could make you happy.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?

ALMS  (ALMS)   n.s.[in Saxon, elmes, from eleemosyna, Lat.]What is given gratuitously in relief of the poor. It has no singular. My arm'd knees,Which bow'd