Quotes About Altruism

Service heals the recipient and the giver.

Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness.

Life has a way of shining on people who stand in the sunshine of kind actions.

The true test of a man's character is not how much he has, but how much he is willing to give.

The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

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.

If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings--this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.

man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

What we give to the poor, we lend to God.

individuals will sacrifice themselves for the good of a larger whole. When groups struggle, the ones which boast the most effective organization, strategy, and weapons win. Individuals who contribute to their group's virtuosity will be part of the team which survives.

If you do something to benefit one person, that is an absolute gain, and its relative insignificance in the wider scheme is irrelevant. Benefit two people without concomitant harm to others - or a village, tribe, city, class, nation, society or civilisation - and the benefits are scalable, arithmetic. There is no excuse beyond fatalistic self-indulgence and sheer laziness for doing nothing.

the pelican symbolizes self-sacrificial parental devotion (from the belief that it pecks its own breast to feed its young on its blood)

Selfishness is also written on our hearts. This is our mammalian conflict - what to give to others, and what to keep for yourself.

self-interest and kindness were best not separated

El amor sufre luengo y es amable; el amor no envidia; el amor no se jacta, no es pomposo, no se comporta de una forma indecorosa, no busca su provecho, no se deja provocar, no medita maldades; se deleita no en la iniquidad, sino en la verdad...

She listed some relevant ingredients, goals towards which a child might grow. Economic and moral freedom, virtue, compassion and altruism, satisfying work through engagement with demanding tasks, a flourishing network of personal relationships, earning the esteem of others, pursuing larger meanings to one's existence, and having at the centre of one's life one or a small number of significant relations defined above all by love.

as long as one's decided to give, he might as well give the best he's got.

I saved the baby. I saved her. For you. - Bran

At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the energy and skill of others. Nothing more.

Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.

Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero?