Quotes About Altruism

If you love, you will unconsciously fulfill the whole law.

There is a difference between trying to please and giving pleasure. Give pleasure. Lose no chance of giving pleasure; for that is the ceaseless and anonymous triumph of a truly loving spirit. "I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.

Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

If we had more justice there would be less need of charity.

It is easy to give; it is harder to make giving unnecessary.

The charitable system that does not aim to make itself unnecessary is not performing service.

It is . . . a melancholy fact that the countries which are most humanitarian, which are most interested in internal improvement, tend to grow weaker compared with the other countries which possess a less altruistic civilization . . 

A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

Hope is beyond price and the pharmaceutical companies, which are run by businessmen not altruists, price their products accordingly.

Psychological research has shown that the most reliable route to personal happiness is to make others happy. I have made many patients very happy with successful operations but there have been many terrible failures and most neurosurgeons' lives are punctuated by periods of deep despair.

Love, I reminded my trainees, can be very selfish.

The good of any one individual is of no more importance, from the point of view (if I may so say) of the Universe, than the good of any other; unless, that is, there are special grounds for believing that more good is likely to be realized in the one case than in the other.

Reason shows me that if my happiness is desirable and good, the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable. ...

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

Love is not getting, but giving

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

There is a loftier ambition than to stand high in the world. It is to step down and lift mankind a little higher.

Give what you have. To some it may be better than you dare think.

Selfishness at the expense of others' happiness is demonism.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.