Quotes About Altruism

A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man.

You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.

It is our duty to love the unloved, help the helpless, and bring hope to the hopeless

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.

The more we give of ourselves, the more our capacity to serve, understand, and love will grow.

We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.

Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.

Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It loves for the creature's sake it loves, and for nothing else.

Love gives up the right to get even.

Love others and as you do, that love will return to you.

I have found that the greatest degree of inner peace comes from cultivating love and compassion.

Love is wanting others to be happy.

Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option.

When a person gives, he loves the object of his giving more -- and so love is planted and grows.

True Christianity is love in action.

The person determined to love others will always find a way to do so.

Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning. And wheresoe'er thy pathway leads on earth, There thou shalt find the lamp of love-light burning.

I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.

Love is pure and kind and forgiving. It is the greatest gift of all.

God loves the world. Go thou and do likewise.