Quotes About Altruism

Being charitable provides a boost to your psyche that is tough to replicate in any other way. But note that although any charity will happily take your money, you can give in other ways and still reap the same happiness reward. Volunteering and donating your old or unused belongings have the same result.

There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.

Sully's' upbeat message is that we still need humans. It was the heroically human Sully who saved those people, not some cold equation written on a chalkboard.

We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden.

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND THANK EVERYONEWHO TRIES TO MAKEA DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVESOF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS

I work for the suffering of the common man, something I am very proud of and will continue to do.

To be a Baha'i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.

If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.

One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.

Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa

I took up leprosy work. Not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is: I did it to overcome fear.

Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ?

I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.

The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!

Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

What need is there to say more? The childish work for their own benefit, The Buddhas work for the benefit of others. Just look at the difference between them.

The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact that we can see.

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.

The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead