Quotes About Altruism

You have to want to save someone in order to be saved.

True love is a blinding thing, it can color the experiences of even the worst events with a rosy tint, it can turn men and women into the best types of people—ones who will sacrifice the world for a shared moment of bliss.

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

Whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van, The fittest place for man to die Is when he dies for man.

A real hero doesn't expect to be thanked or even recognized.

I think a lot of people are getting more serious about how to do the most good, but there is no road map. I'm hoping I can offer an example.

There was a while where every role I was getting offered was extremely noble - like the judge or the kindly nurse.

I hope I can use everything that's being offered to me to do good in other people's lives.

That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Nobody else in the world can do what we can do. And nobody else is willing to do it for altruistic reasons. I mean, we don't go into places like Iraq to grab their oil or colonize their country. We go there to deliver, as George W. Bush said, the blessings of liberty.

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.

Not everything has to be a money-making operation. You do things sometimes because it makes you feel good.

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

And unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality.

I am covered with fine gold, said the Prince, you must take it off, leaf by leaf, and give it to my poor.

Lord Henry smiled. People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

I often wonder what would have happened to those in pain if, instead of Christ, there had been a Christian.

The Noblest form of Affection

He gives me good advice...People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

I always pass on good advice.  It is the only thing to do with it.  It is never of any use to oneself. mabel

And self-sacrifice is a thing that should be put down by law.  It is so demoralising to the people for whom one sacrifices oneself.  They always go to the bad.

People are fond of giving away what they need most themselves.