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Quotes About Altruism

You can do more good by being good than any other way.
~ John Wooden
We can do more good by being good, than in any other way.
~ Rowland Hill
Doing his own benefactions without hope of a celestial harvest, he thought himself on a nobler plane than religious men whom he always accused for making, as he called it, terms with God.
~ Honore de Balzac
Ba?kalar?n?n mutlulu?u art?k mutlu olamayacak olanlar?n tesellisidir.
~ Honore de Balzac
Las almas grandes están siempre dispuestas a hacer de una desgracia una virtud. Existe además un atractivo irresistible en obstinarse en hacer un bien en aquello en lo que los demás ven un motivo de reproche: la inocencia tiene el atractivo propio del vicio.
~ Honore de Balzac
Someday you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
~ Honore de Balzac
He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
~ Horace
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
~ Horace Mann
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
~ Horace Mann
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
~ Hosea Ballou
Maybe because he can read the pain of others... that he values saving them more than his own life.
~ Unknown
Help People Even When You Know They Can't Help You Back. Hovsep kazezian - www.Hkazezian.com
~ Unknown
Only the very great take pleasure in the glory of others." "Oh?" He had forgotten entirely his earlier irritation. Now he smiled at the manner in which she complimented herself and himself, the two bracketed.
~ Howard Fast
Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
It's inevitable that people who are trying to manipulate, persuade or deceive us in their own interests would try to pretend that they are driven by...the finest expressions of our common humanity - altruism, compassion and kindness. [p63]
~ Hugh Mackay
We do the right things because it's the right thing to do. We respond to others' needs because they have those needs. Our survival depends on cooperation. [p61, paraphrased]
~ Hugh Mackay
C'è sempre un ingenuo... pronto a sacrificarsi per una donna...
~ Hugo Pratt
The most generous person is the one who offers help to those who do not expect him to help.
~ Unknown
The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.
~ Idries Shah
The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
~ Idries Shah
But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.
~ Idries Shah
Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.
~ Idries Shah
To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves.
~ Idries Shah
Saying of the Prophet Distribution God it is who gives: I am only a distributor.
~ Idries Shah