Quotes About Altruism

Volunteer firefighters do it for free!

If you want to be happy, be kind to others.

We cannot afford to be anchorites. There is no such thing as being happy ourselves unless we make others happy.

Charity sees the need, not the cause.

What we have done for ourselves alone, dies with us; what we have done for others and the world, remains and is immortal. No man, however lofty and however humble, can isolate himself from his kind, and, shutting himself up in the dark cell of his exclusiveness, determine to live for himself alone. No man, however obscure, can truly say that he is so unknown, and so unimportant, that he can contribute nothing to enlighten and benefit Humanity... Let us grow in Love as well as in Knowledge...

And what more sublime delight than to... share our bread with one to whom misfortune has left none!

Love the earth and sun and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem...

It's not that successful people are givers; it is that givers are successful people.

To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better.

People are marvelous in their generosity if they just know the cause is there.

I was in touch with great souls who exalted flesh and spirit over dollars and cents, and to whom the thin wail of the starved slum child meant more than all the pomp and circumstance of commercial expansion and world empire.

Tirarle el hueso al perro no es caridad. Caridad es compartir el hueso con el perro cuando se está tan hambriento como él

It is human nature, to give in hope of getting.

Is the world so cruel, then, that that is all that is required to move a man to risk his life? Kindness?

It is what I do. If you wish to thank me, do a kindness for someone in need.

The enemy of fear is love, for it is in loving others that we set aside our own personal fears, holding their safety and well-being as our highest regard.

My thanks, Master." He waved his hand. "It is what I do. If you wish to thank me, do a kindness for someone in need.

It is my observation, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others. I like to think it might have been so.

Mercy and compassion are all the grace left to us.

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.

La forma di egoismo più intelligente è l'altruismo.

For there to be a gift, there must be no reciprocity, return, exchange, countergift, or debt. (...) For there to be a gift, it is necessary that the donee not give back, amortize, reimburse, (...)

Some three hundred leading Japanese citizens were removed from jail by these voluntary efforts of the missionary descendants. It wasn't that they liked Japanese, or that they feared Imperial Japan less than their neighbors. It was just that as Christians they could not sit idly by and watch innocent people maltreated.

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.