Quotes About Altruism

The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.

We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share food, for instance, with their siblings and with kids that are around. They will sooth. If they see somebody else in pain, even the youngest of toddlers will try to reach out and pat the person.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

That's the trick of free market economic theory: it doesn't just ask you to only be selfish and not care about others. It tells you that by being selfish, you are helping others. And, in fact, by trying to directly help others, you will hurt them.

I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.

Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to live his life serving others.

The motto of my Jesuit high school was 'Men for others.' I've tried to live that creed.

I'm the type of person who tries to save the world.

I am a team player who tries to work for the team.

I have always been the kind of player who tries to help those around me.

Trophies are good, but saving somebody who could die, giving them hope of a life, that means a lot to me.

I think we are ready to know that there are going to be people who are ready to save the world, who come out when you're in trouble and make sure that you're okay.

Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.