Quotes About Altruism

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.

Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

He that distributeth not That which he hath received-- His food, his drink, his sustenance-- Unto devotee, brahman, beggar, wayfarer-- Such a low man as he, they say, is like Unto a lack of rain.

To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.

Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.

Kindness is a language heard by deaf men and felt by blind men.

Superman when he goes after someone is essentially not trying to beat them, he is trying to save them from themselves... You're looking at a God who walks amongst men!

If you want to help a hungry poor man sleeping on the bench, don't ever wake him up; put some food on the bench, put some money and leave the place without looking at your back!

Will you continue doing goodness even if you know that no one will know them? Will you continue doing kindness even if you know that no one will remember them? Then, you are truly a holy man!

It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.

Love. Help with no expectations. Destroy selfishness, self... At the end of our lives, I believe the soul will be asked, "What did you do for your fellow man?"

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

Be good and honest to your fellow man and try to do something good for somebody.

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.

Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.