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Quotes About Altruism

Everyone wants someone to help but prefers that it not be them.
~ Steven Pinker
The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.
~ Gary Chapman
It is not preaching any rules the world wants, but love and action.
~ Shoghi Effendi
The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity.
~ Sivananda
Liberals love to strike generous, humanitarian poses with other people's lives.
~ Ann Coulter
To me love is passionate, it is honest, and it is selfless. Love is willing to completely give up your life for someone, to make sacrifices and put them first.
~ Benjamin Stone
God is the utterly loving giver. God doesn't just love. God is love.
~ Miroslav Volf
May God give back to you in love all the love you have given.
~ Mother Teresa
People who serve you without love get even behind your back.
~ Walt Whitman
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.
~ Tim LaHaye
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.
~ Steven Pressfield
Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.
~ Thomas Merton
Philanthropy is the market for love. It is the market for all those people for whom there is no other market coming.
~ Dan Pallotta
Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.
~ David Niven
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
~ Albert Einstein
Love and kindness are never wasted.
~ Barbara De Angelis
Justice from Love, and Love from Justice
~ Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!
~ Henry Home, Lord Kames
The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
~ John Ortberg
I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Love the whole world as if it were your self; then you will truly care for all things.
~ Laozi
It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
~ Mother Teresa