Quotes About Altruism

Success to me means serving a calling higher than yourself that improves the lives of everyone and is done completely in the name of service.

I think it's really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.

We need leaders who appeal to us to think about something other than narrow self-interest but instead focus upon the greater good.

Giving is what makes a nation great.

I wanted to put the national interest before my personal interests.

Rather than leaving generous people on the short end of an unequal bargain, practices of generosity are actually likely instead to provide generous givers with essential goods in life—happiness, health, and purpose—which money and time themselves simply cannot buy. That is an empirical fact well worth knowing.

I've been dead over seventy years and still when I hear a woman scream, I find myself standing, listening, wanting to help and unable to do anything except watch.

All my life, when children have asked me for money, I've told them to fuck right off. But you've taught me that there's a positive side to charity. Thank you.

Until you have done something for humanity," wrote the great American educator Horace Mann, "you should be ashamed to die.

Like the quality of mercy, the prompting of compassion is not finite, and can be self-replenishing.

Christopher Hitchens

Steady and righteous we may be, my friend, but without courage to risk ourselves for our brother, we are but politicians—blustering whores to rhetoric.

I'm not fighting for myself anymore.... It makes a difference.

Everybody should give some of their time for the good of their town or country.

god gives but does not share --haitian proverb

No one keeps track of the hours we work," said Ken Holberger. He grinned. "That's not altruism on Data General's part. If anybody kept track, they'd have to pay us a hell of a lot more than they do." Yet it is a fact, not entirely lost on management consultants, that some people would rather work twelve hours a day of their own choosing than eight that are prescribed. Provided, of course, that the work is interesting. That was the main thing.

Just give love," it read in part. "The soul will take that love / and put it where it can best be used.

Kindness is the truest thing there is -Sister Rosa

I don't think you can ever call kindness a mistake -Mr. Sabatini

Gustavo Solivellas dice: El verdadero amor quiere el bien del amado (Umberto Eco)

Los franciscanos piden la pobreza para sí mismos, pero nunca la han pedido para los otros. No

One doesn't commit evil actions in the belief that one is acting wrongly. What allows one to commit such acts is the belief that it will contribute to a greater good.

No true friendship takes account of credit and debt. It gives freely, without thought of compensation or reward.

In the beginning he had assumed that they did it out of the goodness of their hearts; but now that he had looked into their hearts, he rejected the explanation.