Quotes About Altruism

Rather I like to think of myself as charitable. The charitable say in effect, "I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you." Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.

Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.

I may never be known as a philanthropist, but I certainly am a lover of mankind, and I will give freely of my resources. I am happy to describe myself as charitable.

Don't care about me. Save your love for someone else.

The fact that he was willing to sacrifice his own face in order to keep mine from getting bashed in

To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself

Family wasn't just the people who had the same blood as you coursing through their veins. Family was people who needed you. Family was people who had nothing when you had everything. You had to do what was right by them. You had to, even if doing so broke your heart.

No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many.

If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own way, then it would not be my friend that I loved but myself. I should love my friend on account of his own goodness and virtues and account of all that he is in himself. Only if I love my friend in this way do I love him properly.

I'm-being-sooo-generous

That's because the banner behind which they march is not altruism. It is narcissism. But it took me a very long time fully to grasp this.

I think kindness, out of all virtues, is the best quality to have.

All his gentleness, all his kindness, all the bright shining gorgeousness of his love, he had always given to someone else.

and the woman who founded New York's first private orphanage . . .

you have in the service of others? Kerry shook her head. No, you really had no obligation aside from whatever one you created for yourself.

As Thomas Wright writes in an article from the book Co-Dependency, An Emerging Issue, "I suspect codependents have historically attacked social injustice and fought for the rights of the underdog. Codependents want to help. I suspect they have helped. But they probably died thinking they didn't do enough and were feeling guilty.

Whenever we are thinking too deeply and too hard about ourselves, it may be time to focus on doing something that serves somebody else.

We believe that all those who are served should also spend time serving.

If you don't look after your fellow man, if you think that what you want is always more important than what anyone else wants or needs, you're not human, and that's that.

Don't you see, Stef? It's not that I'm serving Valdemar, it's that I'm helping to preserve the kind of people who leave the world better than they found it, and trying to stop the ones who take instead of giving.

If you don't look after your fellow man, if you think that what you want is always more important than what anyone else wants or needs, you're not human, and that's that. There is no virtue in selfishness, not one bit.

There are always people who aren't human, who think the only thing in the world that matters is themselves.

The willingness to sacrifice is a necessary dimension of loving practice and living in community. None of us can have things our way all the time. Giving up something is one way we sustain a commitment to the collective well-being. Our willingness to make sacrifices reflects our awareness of interdependency.

We must seet a value in life that is above and beyond profit motives.