Quotes About Altruism

Let all that you do be done in love.

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

To love is to will the good of the other.

My friends, how desperately we need to be loved and to love. With it we are creative. With it we march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others.

All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from seeking pleasure for others.

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

If you need encouragement, give it. If you need love, give it.Whatever you need, give it away.

Our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never.

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others.

Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others.

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

In life we do many things, say many things, but the voice of suffering offered out of love - which is perhaps unheard by and unknown to others - is the loudest cry that can penetrate Heaven

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.

He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.

It's not the love you make. It's the love you give.