Quotes About Altruism

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.

If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.

...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.

When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.

It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.

No man can help another without helping himself.

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all.

The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.

Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.

Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this here world than that.

None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.

A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.

A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

Service to man is service to god