Quotes About Altruism

The best gift is giving from your heart

Keep a constant awareness and a conscious effort to say good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion.

Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

Annihilate the enemy with acts of kindness only you can afford.

What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind

I would not mind being a bit evil, for the larger good.

If I cannot be useful to my country, I'll try to be useful to my leader and to all the people around me.

The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.

True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

In the future no human being is to find peace in the enjoyment of happiness if others beside him are unhappy.

Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.

The real pleasure,the real peace, the real enlightenment is to give. The more you give the more you get. If you give 10, you get 100.

All works of love are works of peace.

That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.

Love and compassion are the pillars of world peace.

Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.