Quotes About Altruism

Me, me, me is dull, dull, dull.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Self-love is no part of morality. Indeed it is exactly its counterpart. It is the sole antagonist of virtue leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself.

If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God.

he who saves the life of one man saves the entire world.

In a fallen world, it was hard to do unambiguous good.

Those of us who attempt to act and do things for others or for the world without deepening our own self-understanding, freedom, integrity, and capacity to love, will not have anything to give others. We will communicate to them nothing but the contagion of our own obsessions, our aggressivity, our ego-centered ambitions, our delusions about ends and means.

Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.

Grace, which is charity

We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others. What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean, first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.

As long as we secretly adore ourselves, our own deficiencies will remain to torture us with an apparent defilement. But if we live for others, we will gradually discover that no one expects us to be "as gods." We will see that we are human, like everyone else, that we all have weaknesses and deficiencies, and that these limitations of ours play a most important part in all our lives.

For love does not seek a joy that follows from its effect: its joy is in the effect itself, which is the good of the beloved...love, therefore, is its own reward.

His was the unconstrained vision of human nature, in which man was capable of directly feeling other people's needs as more important than his own, and therefore of consistently acting impartially, even when his own interests or those of his family were involved.

Love exists to the extent that you give it away.

Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you." Matthew 5:42

Who can be good, if not made so by loving? —St. Augustine

Seek joy in what you give, not in what you get

The world is rife with evil and misfortune, but it is also full of good people determined to right wrongs. I would not sink into sadness. I would celebrate those who refuse to give up. Those who battle to make things better.

I would rather lay down my life for others' freedom than die quietly in slavery.

Con ng??i, ?ôi khi, ch? c?n s?ng m?t cách ?áng t? hào c?ng là ?ang giúp ai ?ó r?i.

Scientists don't make decisions based on potential profit. What a scientist must consider foremost is which of the many available paths will lead to the greatest benefit for humanity. Even if said path, doesn't result in any personal gain, it's still the one to pick. Of course, ideally, we hope that the most beneficial path also results in personal gain.

Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children… it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.