Quotes About Altruism

First. Love ought to manifest itself more by deeds than by words.

Tip, if I had a ticket to heaven and you didn't have one too, I would give mine away and go to hell with you. Ronald Reagan

My priority is to see that some people don't suffer for the good of others.

The mythic journey is always about selflessness

caring about lives is not caring about your own life. it's all about giving your last breath for others to live. The caring man is like the last crab out of a bucket. letting others step on your back to get out, and letting you not step on others back and that is love.

Another, more basic reason is that even being able to know or define in the first place what hurts or helps other people often itself requires reference to certain moral standards and understandings of what is good and bad.

Men enjoy the happiness they feel. We can only enjoy the happiness we give.

If you have succeeded in winning people's hearts by friendliness, simplicity and courtesy, the secret lay in this: that you were not thinking of yourself. Hold fast this mystic power; it is a spark from Heaven.

He revealed his own character when he wrote, "I seem to be here to care more for others than for myself, and am well content with this destiny.

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.

I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humbled Himself and He so yielded Himself to His Father's love that He had no ambition of His own. He was not looking to build an empire, He did not want praise or adulation or to impress people with who or how many followed Him. He stopped over and over again for just one person, for just one life.

When I held Beatrice, I caught scabies and lice. But it didn't matter. My only goal is to love more.

It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

There are good people, kind people, too. I've got to keep thinking of them. I've got to remember them. There are people who help. Not only people who destroy.

He casts out, so Jesus calls us to follow suit, to stop restricting our love to our inner circle: "If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you?"25 He calls us to love the destitute, the hated foreigner, our oppressor, and even our enemy with the same wholehearted love we currently reserve for our closest companions.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

I sought for love on the highway, For love unselfish and pure, And found it in good deeds blooming, Tho' often in haunts obscure.

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, 'Til in Heaven the deed appears - Pass it on.

Goodness is the only investment which never fails.

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

As for doing good, that is one of the professions which are full.

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

I wonder why it is we are not all kinder than we are! How much the world needs it. How easily it is done. How instantaneously it acts. How infallibly it is remembered