Quotes About Altruism

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

The giving of love took nothing from others.

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

Real love opens doors to something larger than oneself.

Generosity is, by definition, disinterested." (p.157)

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift

The most vital part of your humanity is the love you have for others. To deny it is to deny your life.

From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.

Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

My mom has always taught me to stand up for people who don't have a voice.

This beautiful, messy, wonderful and volatile world of ours needs more heroes.

From my early school days, I was brought up with the belief that we have a duty to use our talents, to volunteer and to make a contribution.

People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'

Volunteer service is Dad's true north.

Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And for 40 years I have received the same results: One third vote for their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third don't know what they would do.

All saints are selfish.

I'm a really selfish person. But I would do anything for my friends.

I'm not selfish at all.

You live this life being selfish, you're not going to enjoy it like you will when you open your heart and your home up.

I'm not a selfish guy.

The only thing I think about is helping the team, respecting all my team-mates, not being selfish.

I'm not a selfish guy, I'm not a stats guy.

You know, I'm not a selfish guy.