Quotes About Altruism

Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.

We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.

We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others.

Love is selfless. The key is giving up yourself.

The measure of true giving is to share with someone who has no platform from which to speak and may never benefit us in any way. After all, isn't that what true love is all about?

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.

Rescue is costly, but LOVE pays the price.

When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life -- trust, love, mercy, and altruism -- then we shall know that the kingdom of God is here.

Love is the selfless promotion of the growth of the other.

Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?

If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

If I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary's love

Love is not about getting - but giving.

When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.

Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.

Charity is love; not all love is charity.

Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.

Spread your love wherever you go.

Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.

There is no place for selfishness-and no place for fear! Do not be afraid, then, when love makes demands. Do not be afraid when love requires sacrifice

I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.

Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.

All I could think of was what a privilege it was to give my life away for love's sake.