Quotes About Altruism

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find it out.

I'm feeling generous today. You get to live.

Sometimes you have to do things that you don't want to do for the sake of other people. In the end, you are the choices that you make.

Make your default mode one of generosity. It's a nice way to live, and it's contagious.

We're so obsessed with assuring our own perpetuity that our goals seldom coincide with what would be good for humankind

The Lord has made all things for Himself (Prov.xvi.4): apart from Himself there existed nothing to make them for. He made them for His own sake, for His own pleasure. But it was His pleasure to bring into existence things that could take pleasure in existence. For our sakes He made us for His sake. To us there is something mysterious in an altruism so total, but something exciting in the mystery. Among all the mysteries, many are greater, but it is hard to think of one more pleasing.

Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

I'm not like that fellow who thought it a far, far better thing to trade his life for that of another. I'm nothing like him: I'd never volunteer to lay my head in the lap of Madame la Guillotine. No, that fellow was a hero and I'm not a hero at all.

If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.

We are born with impulses that draw us to others and that later in life make us care about them.

biology is usually called upon to justify a society based on selfish principles, but we should never forget that it has also produced the glue that holds communities together.

Elephant altruism on the Kenyan plains. With her tusks, Grace (right) lifted the fallen three-ton Eleanor to her feet, then tried to get her to walk by pushing her. But Eleanor fell again and eventually died, leaving Grace vocalizing with streaming temporal glands—a sign of deep distress. Being matriarchs of different herds, these two elephants were likely unrelated.

Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.

La solidaridad, o es total o no existe. Es un sentimiento que no sabe de ahorro.

La generosidad es un regalo que uno se hace a sí mismo. No hay nada mejor para sentirse bien.

Real strength has to do with helping others.

To see people who will notice a need in the world and do something about it [...] Those are my heroes.

There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The way is to be kind.

You know, my mother used to say, a long time ago, whenever there would be any really---catastrophe that was in the movies or on the air, she would say, 'Always look for the helpers. There will always be helpers, just on the sidelines.

There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.

Life is for service.