Quotes About Altruism

Humans are not a commodity, nor is our humanity. Fight to save the lives of those who can not save themselves, and in turn, you will have saved your soul.

I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about others.

Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.

Perfect love will never want the preeminence in everything, it will never want to take the place of another, it will always be willing to take the back seat.

If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to find the right person in your life, be the right person. If you want to see change in the world, become the change you want to see.

Love is doing something you don't want to do for someone you don't particularly like at that moment.

The prayer most pleasing to God is that made for others and particularly for the poor souls. Pray for them, if you want your prayers to bring high interest.

I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you figure out what you want to do with your own life.

I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.

If you want to be miserable, think of yourself. If you want to be happy, think of others.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.

It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.

In the ages marked by scarcity and want, may I myself appear as drink and sustenance.

Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take.

People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do

Don't wait to give until you receive; anyone can give something after they've first been given something themselves.

13Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

I do not give lectures or a little charity. When I give I give myself.

It's a wonderful phrase. Gandhi's meaning was simple: Only the human being who acts in a way that is empty of self can be the instrument of Soul Force. And it is only Soul Force that can establish a harmonious world. Human beings alone are helpless to resolve conflicts without it.

He saw that true living was living for the sake of others. He was freed from the bondage of his awkward, inept, fearful self.