Quotes About Altruism

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

Infinite altruism is the basis of peace and happiness. If you want altruism, you must control hate and you must practice patience. The main teachers of patience are our enemies.

I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.

I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.

It is much more likely that you will attain liberation if you want liberation for others, than just for yourself.

Selfless giving is being nice and there are times we don't want to be.

If they're not sincere, then naturally I'll turn them down. But if what they want is to gain power and use it for a higher good, I'll help them. Then they merit some special consideration.

It was compassion. The tragic kind of compassion, the kind that sacrifices itself and sees that sacrifice as the only choice and thus no choice at all, one that must be accepted without hesitation.

KierowaÅ'a siÄ™ wówczas instynktem, a jej instynkt nie miaÅ' nic wspólnego z altruizmem. Na wojnie altruiÅ›ci nie ?yli dÅ'ugo.

Worship the sacrifice they will make, for they make it in the name of compassion—the only cause worth fighting and dying for.

People were the same everywhere, no matter what lofty vows they proclaimed. Help was given only in the hope of its being reciprocated. Expectations of reward lurked behind every act of altruism.

SANSHO THE BAILIFF (1954) 'Without compassion a man is no longer human.' So states Taira.

Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

Aninka regarded Taziel speculatively. She could swear that he'd somehow decided to keep Daniel for himself, but she wasn't sure of his reason for that. Simple altruism just didn't ring true.

Sometimes it is necessary to partake in sacrifice of self, but being a martyr to one's causes inspires only impatience in others.

I think it's possible that when you think that the future might bring great sadness, you become more generous that you ever has been before, so you can carry other people's happiness with you.

For loving-kindness to be real, for it to have moral value, he observed, it must be practiced with consideration "of the other's distress alone".

Sacrifice is heart of Love.

I do a lot of social service and I don't boast about it. I believe that if you give with one hand, the other hand shouldn't know of it. I don't believe in cheap publicity.

I don't want to associate my social work with Infosys, money, etc.

I believe in being good to people and doing social work.

I guess I'm a socialist at heart.