Quotes About Altruism

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

The most infectiously joyous men and women are those who forget themselves in thinking about others and serving others.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

To devote a portion of one's leisure to doing something for someone else is one of the highest forms of recreation.

Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

What we frankly give, forever is our own.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

Be unselfish.... If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.

Happiness ... consists in giving, and in serving others.

Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests, we easily become despondent. But when we work for others, our efforts return to bless us.

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.

The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.

Unless we give part of ourselves away, unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them, we are missing the most essential part of our own lives.

To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty, assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence, is to lament the loss of that which we possess, and is just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.

Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed ... I have often tried this method, and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.

When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.