Quotes About Altruism

Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work.

My work is about helping humanity.

People everywhere look to the United States to use its remarkable power to help lift humanity up and to work for the common good.

You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.

I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do.

As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.

If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.

Meidtation and selfless giving must always go together. They work together to create immortality.

If you work an extra ten hours to help spread the dharma, this will cause for much faster progression. You're doing something for a higher cause, for a higher ideal.

In America, we like everyone to know about the good work we're doing anonymously.

I don't believe in political strategies. I believe only to do good for the people.

At least one reason for trying to live lives that make a difference is that by so living, we hope we will not be forgotten by those who benefit from our trying to make a difference. Yet to try to insure we will not be forgotten too often results in desperate manipulative strategies that are doomed to fail.

Nothing about the priesthood is self-centered. The priesthood always is used to serve, to bless, and to strengthen other people.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

My parents were fairly laid-back, but there were certain things about which they were very strict. My brother and I were told never to turn away a person in need. And it didn't matter what we thought of their motives, whether they were truly in need or not.

One of the hallmarks of the American spirit is the desire to help each other when disaster strikes.

I think we're innately good. But it doesn't mean we're gonna do good all the time. It means you have to strive.

You don't need a religious background to strive for something good, for genuine compassion and love for others.

I certainly feel a strong call of public service.

God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.

I believe in giving back very strongly.

Ever since I got to know how easily skin donation can save the lives of serious burns patients, I have felt strongly about the issue.

Giving back was an expectation, not an option.

I hope more people decide to become organ donors.