Quotes About Altruism

In order to be successful in any 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. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.

That wasn't why he had accepted this job. He had accepted it because someone needed to be willing to stand up and do the right thing for the nation, no matter what the personal cost.

I returned to the Third Northern Hall. I lined a fishing net with heavy-gauge plastic. Inside I placed what I thought was the right amount of nesting material for two such enormous birds. It approximated to three days' fuel. This was no insignificant amount and I knew that I might be colder because I had given it away. But what is a few days of feeling cold compared to a new albatross in the World?

Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look out for yourself. For the Arab mind, the self is an obstacle, an impediment, in humanity's quest foe real progress.

Never give charity if the reason is to make yourself feel better," he said. "Real charity is not selfish, but selfless." After

What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people?

Love is giving, not taking.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

a vital component of charity and grace is the ability not to draw attention to one's possession of them.

My mother often says that it is the mark of a truly good person if she is happy for those she has never met.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

There's a little known virtue called magnificence: an unostentatious liberality of expenditure in doing good.

I express my faith by being extremely generous to others, particularly those in need -- not censorious of myself, which I see as a kind of useless, tight-fisted vanity.

From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing &pound20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't get rid of my money fast enough.

I don't mind scrambling around in public after baby birds and trapped butterflies. I don't mind the strange looks and smirks that inevitably follow such activities. I can't walk by creatures in need. And I get to take home the greatest treasure of all: a warm glow, knowing that one more turtle will lay her eggs; one more dove, one more skipper will fly because I stopped to help.

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

Sometimes you have to drown to keep someone else above water.

My guess is, they couldn't sleep, and they had the kind of generous nature that reckons insomnia isn't something you hoard all for yourself, you share it with your friends and loved ones.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.