Quotes About Altruism

Sometimes loving means giving. — Carol Russell —

Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.

Justice is doing for others what we would want done for us.

No act of love is ever wasted.

La compasión surge rápidamente de los nobles corazones que sienten los agudos aguijonazos que sufren otros como en su propia carne;

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

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

I have to live for others and not for myself: thats middle class morality.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it... and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

If we had lost our own chief good, other people's good would remain, and that is worth trying for.

Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care But for another gives its ease And builds a heaven in hell's despair Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a hell in heaven's despite." —W. Blake: Songs of Experience

Dorothea had little vanity, but she had the ardent woman's need to rule beneficently by making the joy of another soul.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

What do we live for, if not to make the world less difficult for each other?

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult to others?

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

Remember Robin Williams's great work as the voice of the genie in Disney's 'Aladdin'? Because he wanted to leave something wonderful behind for his kids, he said, he did the voice for a cut-rate fee of $75,000, far below his usual $8 million payday. But then something happened: The movie became a huge hit, raking in $504 million.

The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

I find that the more I begin to look around, I see so much good that people do that goes unnoticed. So many wonderful things.

We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them.