Quotes About Altruism

Love is putting someone else's needs before yours.

Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.

As long as greed is stronger than compassion, there will always be suffering.

Leadership distilled down to 3 words: Make a difference.

Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

I finally understood what true love meant…love meant that you cared for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful…"

Through love serve one another.

"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."

We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Unkind acts are like giving a piece of one's self away for cheap.

My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving.

But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.

In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

If the people use the wealth bestowed on them by God for themselves alone or for treasuring it, it is like a corpse. But if they decide to share it with others, it becomes sacred food.

Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.

The strangest of all the doctrines of the cult of competition, in which admittedly there must be losers as well as winners, is that the result of competition is inevitably good for everybody, that altruistic ends may be met by a system without altruistic motives or altruistic means.

Every day you have less reason Not to give yourself away. - 1993 I

But they who love the greater love Lay down their life; they do not hate.

The only thing unqualifiedly good in this world is a good will - the will to follow the moral law, regardless of profit or loss for ourselves. Never mind your happiness; do your duty. Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Let us seek the happiness in others; but for ourselves, perfection - whether it bring us happiness or pain.

The most sublime act is to set another before you.