Quotes About Altruism

We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors.

If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.

Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity.

Stop looking for love and start showing it.

I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.

Compassion and love give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive.

True love requires sacrifice.

Giving that is not motivated by love is worth nothing.

If we have love and compassion in our hearts, then we will wholeheartedly serve those who suffer from lack of food, clothing and shelter.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

Love is the ultimate state of human being where compassion prevails and kindness rules.

The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence.

To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls.

Love is giving and it has nothing to do with what you receive.

True love is doing what is good for a person. False love is doing only that which causes that person to love you more.

Follow the Golden Rule. Be kind to your neighbors, love them as much as you would love yourself, do unto others.