Quotes About Altruism

I do believe that when you are a good person, good things will happen to you.

I like to make good things happen for other people. It makes me happy, and I believe it's good for my business as well.

Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.

In my experience, people looking for progress aren't actually looking to move things forward. They're looking to be perceived in a certain way: as a forward thinker. It's about vanity rather than any altruistic motives for the art.

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done.

During the Enlightenment, there were brilliant thinkers who realized that, if you assume most people are naturally selfish and you construct the market around that, sometimes it can actually work for the common good. I just think that in many cases, it went too far.

We have a responsibility to help those around us and help others in need.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.

I believe that in this new world that we live in, we often have a responsibility, you know, to actually go beyond the thou shalt nots - that is, the not harming others - and say we can help others and we should be helping others.

Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.

Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.

Everything I've ever thought about doing has been, in some sense, about helping people.

Give back in some way. Always be thoughtful of others.

I think it's a shame when people don't see the funny, thoughtful Mark that I know. He is incredibly sensitive and really cares about what other people need and want and really wants to be able to make someone else's day. And that's the Mark that I see.

I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what?

The problem was to love people, try to serve them, without wanting anything from them. I was a long way from solving that one.

If you can't pass on a little loving-kindness in this world, you might as well be a gopher in a hole.

What is so 'only' about 'yourself'? Is not the first thing one has to learn in this respect that to do something for yourself--I mean, the right kind of thing--is just as valuable and ethical than to do it for somebody else? Wouldn't you say that the good feeling we get simply because we did 'it' (whatever) for somebody else is cheating, in that it postpones the question: what is it good for?

Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.

It would have been far easier to write about an active Order; people can see, understand and admire the good they do. 'Sister,' said a young American soldier when, in India, he watched a nun bandaging the rotting and malodorous finger stumps of an old leper, 'Sister, I wouldn't do your work for ten thousand dollars a day.' 'Neither would I,' said the nun.

She was always ready with her smile, and would willingly have lent it to anyone who was feeling unhappy.

Ask not what your age wants," Brownson said, "but what it needs; not what it will reward, but what, without which, it cannot be saved; and that go and do; and find your reward in the consciousness of having done your duty, and above all in the reflection that you have been accounted to suffer somewhat for mankind.

When you do good by the world, the world will do good by you

You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.