Quotes About Altruism

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The young have very curious views on unselfishness.

Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

You can get everything in life you want if you just help enough other people get what they want.

THE SINGLE, INTEGRATED inner experience of caring for, respecting, and bonding to another is love. The object of your love is one whom you care about even more than you are concerned for your own self. You would do or give what the other needs without the slightest feeling that what you have done or given is a sacrifice at all. Those acts and gifts are the fulfillment of love, and life.

I have even heard holiness defined as the absence of self-interest.

A day should not pass without acts of loving-kindness, either with one's body, money, or soul.

BEFORE A PERSON gives up his portion in the next world for others, let's see if he is willing to forgo some of his share in this world for others. —RABBI YOSEF YOZEL HURWITZ, THE ALTER OF NOVARDOK (1849–1919)

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

That's what love is – sacrifice. Sacrificing everything ...

This is a kindness, a thing done to another human being for no reason other than compassion. A private, dignified act of basic human decency, which history, being the bastard that it is, will probably neglect to commemorate. You

I don't have a personal life. Whatever I have is for the country and society.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective.

Sometimes people give to charity because they have been persuaded to believe in a cause, sometimes just to get rid of you and sometimes because they are befuddled and confused.

I would love to have had much more money so that I could be a philanthropist.

I hate the term 'philanthropist.'

I am not giving so much of my wealth that I should feel that I am a philanthropist.

My goal is to work diligently to become the top philanthropist in the world.

Philanthropy is in the DNA of my family.

The best rule for philanthropy is to give until it hurts, as much as you can, because none of us can get through life all by ourselves.

I think philanthropy is so much more in keeping with spirit of shouting someone out than a material reward.

Philanthropy is my job.