Quotes About Altruism

He who would profit by the wisdom of the universal mind, has to reach it through the whole of Humanity without distinction of race, complexion, religion, or social status. It is altruism, not ego-ism even in its most legal and noble conception, that can lead the unit to merge its little Self in the Universal Selves.

You give, give, give. Why? Because you love to. It's not a strategy, it's a way of life.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

Never expect God to do for you what you don't do for others.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

Great leaders desire to serve, not to be served

The whole process at the "Inny," as it was known, imitated a grand and long-standing intellectual tradition, and nothing defined it better than the august school motto: No nobis solum set toti mundo nati—You're born not for yourself but for the whole world.

When we lose ourselves for others we ultimately find ourselves don't we? When we let go of our selfish inclinations, wel live life at a deeper, fuller level than would have ever imagined

I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in other

I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

No man whose vision is bounded by colour can come into contact with what is highest and best in the world. In meeting men, in many places, I have found that the happiest people are those who do the most for others; the most miserable are those who do the least. I have also found that few things, if any, are capable of making one so blind and narrow as race prejudice.

In order to be successful in any kind of undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause.

persons who posses sense enough to earn money have sense enough to know how to give it away

The one thing that is most worth living for—and dying for, if need be—is the opportunity of making some one else more happy and more useful.

I have found that the happiest people are those who do the most for others; the most miserable are those who do the least. I have also found that few things, if any, are capable of making one so blind and narrow as race prejudice.

Then very few persons have any idea of the large number of applications for help that rich people are constantly being flooded with.

I have often heard persons condemned for not giving away money, who, to my own knowledge, were giving away thousands of dollars every year so quietly that the world knew nothing about it.