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Quotes About Altruism

Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart.
~ Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Use your imagination lovingly on behalf of another.
~ Neville Goddard
Even if a bodhisattva investigates the highest wisdom, one is not a proper bodhisattva unless one applies skillful means for the benefit of other sentient beings.
~ Je Tsongkhapa
Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.
~ Matthieu Ricard
My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.
~ Ram Dass
Noble man remembers nothing good he did for others.
~ Ali-Shir Nava'i
To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.
~ Ram Dass
Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don't wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belongs to the wisdom!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
There is no wisdom without love.
~ Nilakanta Sri Ram
Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.
~ Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Wisdom in relationships involves a selfless desire to do what's best for the other person.
~ Joshua Harris
The wise man does not lay up treasure. The more he expends on others, the more he gains for himself. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
~ Laozi
Without satisfaction, you cannot have compassion. You have to be satisfied souls, then your compassion will act.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.
~ Baden Powell de Aquino
What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.
~ Albert Einstein
Live a virtuous life, help everyone and spread joy wherever you go.
~ Radhe Maa
I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
~ Victor Hugo
To be generous is the best way to live in this world.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
What is the unmistakable mark of a wise man? It is Love, Love for all humanity.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
~ William Hazlitt
That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.
~ Swami Vivekananda