Quotes About Altruism

If you want love, love somebody.

Love, for me, is always wanting the best for the other person even if it's not what's best for you.

When one drops everything to come to aide one in desperate need of support, that's love

People are not hungry just for bread, they are hungry for love.

There are many people who have worked just because they love the community in which they are in, without expecting any financial consideration.

Again, mercy is literally love in action.

I knew that anything we do to show love is worthwhile: a smile, a word of encouragement, a small act of sacrifice. We grow by these actions.

Non dobbiamo mai rimandare a più tardi quando vogliamo aiutare qualcuno.

he also engaged in many charitable works, notably the building of one of the world's largest orphanages for boys (and boys alone; orphan girls would have to look elsewhere)

do as much as you can for as many as you can, every day. Even on the bad days, there's always something good you can do.

this guy ever had an unselfish thought, as my mama would say, it would die of loneliness.

If this guy ever had an unselfish thought, as my mama would say, it would die of loneliness.

Think how much more rewarding it would be if we all came to work every day asking, "Who can we help today and how can we do it?" instead of "Who can I hurt and how much coverage can I get for it?

Think of how much more rewarding it would be if we all came to work every day asking, Who can we help today and how can we do it? instead of Who can I hurt and how much coverage can I get for it?

We can not build our own future without helping others build theirs.

To love as God loves, in other words, you may have to part with whatever is most precious to you for the sake of someone else.

We have to harden our hearts and think of the greater good. The plan is, our exposure to her is supposed to purify us. But it seems more like her exposure to us is diminishing her.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

Noble deeds are most estimable when hidden.

All suffering comes from cherishing ourselves. All happiness comes from cherishing others. —Tibetan saying

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.