Quotes About Altruism

It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!

2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.

It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.

Maybe instead of buying myself another Barbie, I could donate that to the Kmart Wishing Tree.

A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.

The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.

Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Givers get trust quicker than other people. People trust generous people.

The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

If you follow your heart, if you listen to your gut, and if you extend your hand to help another, not for any agenda, but for the sake of humanity, you are going to find the truth.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.

Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.

Love everyone, serve everyone, remember God, and tell the truth.

Conservators, in the words of John Kenneth Galbraith, are "engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy, that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

To New York voters, Lehman's courage and honesty shone through. Herbert Lehman, the labor official George Meany wrote, "was the ideal public servant … He had none of the average politician's guile, the average diplomat's evasiveness, the average banker's greed, or the average statesman's aloofness." For Herbert Lehman, life was always about public service.

The dignity we create in the time allotted to us becomes a continuum with the dignity we achieve by the altruism of accepting the necessity of death.

Find a cause that's larger than yourself and then give your life to it.

Live by looking for things to do for other people.