Quotes About Altruism

you don't need a calling to minister love...

If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

What you make happen for others, GOD will make happen for you.

Faith, without action, is no faith at all. Love, without sacrifice, is no love at all.

One good turn asketh another.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving.

How good would a Good Samaritan be, if a Good Samaritan would only intend to do good?

The only care That I shall share Shall be the care of others, And on the road I'll halve the load Of overburdened brothers. I rather guess It's selfishness That drives me to such actions, For in this plan I find I can Forget my own distractions.

Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

People are basically good.

since it would always be a sin, in any man of estate, to let his brother perish for want of affording him relief out of his plenty.

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

Maturity beings to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.

The charitable acts that count the most, Greer believes, are those done without anyone knowing.

The only happiness left her was in making some one else happy.

There is within each one of us a potential for goodness beyond our imagining; for giving which seeks no reward; for listening without judgment; for loving unconditionally.

Why do we wait until tomorrow to do good? Why do we wait to be rich before giving? Is not the gift of ourselves better than money, and is there a day or even an hour in which we could not give a tear or a smile to someone who is suffering?

To do each day, humbly, and so that God alone may see it, all the good that one can do; always to seek out all the misery and grief within reach in order to relieve them; to cultivate in oneself a lively sympathy for everyone; and to do all this for God alone — that is the goal of all human existence.

I do," Olaf says. "Love is putting someone else's needs before yours, like, you know, how Kristoff brought you back here to Hans and left you forever.

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

Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.