Quotes About Altruism

I support most charitable organizations.

One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could hurt you - and Darwin posited that it might be rooted in maternal instinct, in sacrificing yourself for your children.

The end of all knowledge should be service to others.

If you want to be happy, make others happy!

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

Our compassion for one another, and our individual actions to help, is what makes our nation - and our community - great.

I think the point of our country, our planet, the reason we're all here, one of the best things that we can do is be concerned about something even when it doesn't concern us. That's the whole point.

But that's what we do in this great nation of ours, we are there to give each other a hand. That's what makes Aussies different to everywhere else in the world.

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

I want to be more selfless and look outward.

Humans are selfish, and because of our innate selfishness, I'm very confident that we can overcome any amount of environmental destruction.

It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others. —John Eldredge

Sé que hay gente que no ama a sus semejantes y yo odio a la gente como esa

In the old tales, kindness is the purest form of heroism. Find the character who meets the world with a big heart and an open hand and you have found your hero or heroine.

That which is best for an individual's interest may not be best for the common good.

One guy, seeing that I was hungry, insisted on buying me a huge lunch and when I thanked him for his kindness, he simply said, 'Pass it on.' I liked this selfless concept - repay me by rewarding someone else entirely with a generous dollop of goodwill.

The four classes are: 1) Good for you, good for other people, 2) Good for you, bad for other people 3) Bad for you, good for other people and 4) Bad for you, bad for other people.

Save one life, you save the world.

It's the best thing in the world to save a life, no matter whose it is.

but is it not heartening to know that so many are willing to fight for the good? Think of that young librarian, Sophie, who made certain you escaped. Think of S.Q., who risked my brother's wrath to make me more comfortable. Think of Captain Noland, and Joe Shooter, and all the others – even strangers – who were prepared to sacrifice their safety, perhaps even their lives, on our behalf. That's something, is it not?

Not all of your sacrifices made today will benefit you personally tomorrow. Some are selfless acts of investments towards the future, that will create generational wealth for our offsprings.