Quotes About Altruism

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.

You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.

So many have come to me that I might serve them, leaving me no time to think of myself. However, I assure you that I do feel deep down within me, God be praised.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

The entire world is a witness to the phenomenon that sorrows keep away from the kindhearted and compassionate.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

I want to be a giving woman and just a nice person in general.

Women are, I think, moved by the idea that self-sacrifice is noble and can be the source of great joy.

Not everybody goes to government to serve themselves and not their country.

I cannot accept this country being destroyed by selfish people who only think about themselves.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

Evil has no limits. If you are a good person, everybody expects you to be good. If you are very good then you become Albert Schweitzer or Mother Theresa. Then you're very good because you are helping people. But evil has no limits.

When you think in terms of public service, I heard so much about what Mother Theresa had done in her life. And I was fortunate enough to get a chance to meet her and talk to her a lot about what motivates her and what drives her. And that, to me, is a person that really is an extraordinary role model.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.