Quotes About Altruism

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

think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. This lesson I have tried to carry with me ever since.

Individual liberation was impossible if other people were suffering.

When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.

A gentleman, I hope it will become clear, is not simply a man who stands apart. He is a man who stands up for others—sometimes even for his enemies—often when those others have no clue that he is there for them.

Jeff, one day you'll understand that it's harder to be kind than clever

You did all this chopping and work from sheer goodness, boy?

not long ago, Atticus would have done it simply from his goodness, he would have done it for Cal.

wish I was a better human. I wish we had food for the hungry and harmony between nations.

No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.

Kindness was one of the things presently (or permanently) in short supply in the world.

Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

pero al fin y al cabo todas las buenas obras son una mezcla de altruismo e interés propio,...

So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

I try to be a good person every day. If you didn't like me, there would be something wrong with you, because I really go out and work as hard as I can to help people. I put myself last - always. I'm a giver all the way.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

My father would give his dinner to any hungry kids who walked by and then go in the backyard and pick weeds from the yard to eat.

If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitprop; at worst, a scandal magnet.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.