Quotes About Altruism

I just think that philanthropy is a fancy way to say that you care about others and that you want to serve others. And that's been a part of me for as long as I can remember.

Philanthropy can have a very strong selfish component.

Philanthropy is never understood by those who don't have it in their own hearts.

Can we get the average person on his way to work to pick someone up and drop them off once in a while?

When we're on the street and someone drops something, I pick it up.

To give to those in need is a central pillar of Islam.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

The way I see it, if you climb the wall, you reach back down and help the next one up.

Brave doesn't spread hate or bully the vulnerable. Brave doesn't put greed and self-interest over millions of lives. Brave doesn't cower behind lies and walls. Brave doesn't pit people against one another. That's what fear does.

I do things - whether it's donations or events for good causes or giving back to my community - for the right reason: because I want to. Because it's the best thing to do. I wanna help someone else out. As far as all the attention for it, that's cool if I get it, but I'm not doing it for that reason. Stuff like that doesn't really phase me.

I wanna be a nice guy.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people.

I have quite a strong sense of wanting to sort of, wanting to help others. I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

Success can be as simple as the warm feeling you get when you smile at a stranger, someone you know must be lonely, and having that stranger return your smile. It can be the bringing of a child into the world and raising that child to be a good man or woman.

Inherently I think the goodness in most people, we get a warm sense of satisfaction if we help someone, it makes you feel better.

Majority of minds are warped into the belief of the only person worth helping is themself.

I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.

A lot of people are happy to give money to charities but are wary of giving through taxes because they feel it doesn't produce any value.

Do not withhold good . . . when it is in your power to do it.

Love isn't love just because someone receives it or reciprocates," Coral said. "Loving someone who doesn't love you in return is perhaps the greatest kind of love. Sacrificial. Without demand or condition.

The mantra of her parents seemed to echo in her head, almost as if they were both talking to her like the angels Olivia had imagined. If they were here, they would have told her the only way to survive heartache and pain this intense was to throw herself into doing something nice for someone else.