Quotes About Altruism

That's what pretty much drives me is just to see people happy and to spread the love.

I just feel like I have when I started making a lot of money, I started spreading it out to people. Mickelson, the whole deal, the over-tip: if I see a guy that looks like he needs a hand out or something, I'll pull something out and give him something.

I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else just to make themselves feel important, it really gets me mad.

You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness.

To me, there are saints every day. They stand up and help others and live for others and do things for others.

I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is getting a bad rap or being unfairly picked on, I will stand up for them, absolutely.

Britain is a nation proud to stand up for what is right and is generous in helping those in need.

It's essential that we understand things like the free-rider problem, but we also need to understand that, fortunately, humans are a little nicer than economists give them credit for. Some people actually leave money at roadside fruit stands; some people give money to NPR so we can listen to it.

Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.

Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.

The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.

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

To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man.

Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

You can only govern men by serving them.

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

Be kind, man - don't be mankind.

Man was not made for himself alone

Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.