Quotes About Altruism

Voglio dare, voglio fare felici le persone, di certo non può far male.

To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.

Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.

When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

It still hurts, she whispered. Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.

When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own.No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter how fucked up; no matter how much it made you feel like you were ripping yourself into pieces.

Work for purpose, be for others.

God gave you two hands one belongs to you and the other to your fellow man.

It's hard to make things right for everyone.""But if everybody helped just one person, lots of people would get helped.

When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

If you believe LOVE makes the world go round, then each act of kindness is a revolution.

There's really nothing I hate more than seeing the people I love unhappy. I would much rather be upset and hurting than them.

Giving from a full heart is one of the most joyous things you can do.

LOVE is sacrifice, how much willing to give up on yourself you are, defines how much love you bear for it.

He who saves a fellow-creature from drowning does what is morally right, whether his motive be duty, or the hope of being paid for his trouble; he who betrays the friend that trusts him, is guilty of a crime, even if his object be to serve another friend to whom he is under greater obligations.

When you do the right thing, it is not just for your own good, but for the betterment of the world.

Be the man of your words, be helpful to others and be that person who is selfless.