Quotes About Altruism

They need to be re-supplied with energy, and that energy comes from asking not what your country can do for you, but from what you can do for your country.

I'm not an austere person.

It's good to be authentic, to help other people, but if it's not helping other people, then don't do it.

Divinity lies in service to the poor.

I believe in living for this world - that's my doctrine - to make everybody happy that you can.

I've always dreamed of going on a mission. You get a chance to go out and help other people.

There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.

My head is always up, and if I see some player in a better position, I give the ball to him automatically. Sometimes I need to be more egotistical and put my head down.

It is possible to call God 'Lord,' to feel emotionally connected to faith, to do the altruistic things and still not want God.

We have the Noble Desire to help others and benefit the world, without expecting any return or recognition

Conscience is the true power. It resides within us. The intention to be absolutely truthful and the willingness to put the benefit of all before personal benefit hold the power to change the world.

End your ego, think of nation

el deber del hombre es ser feliz y si cumple con este deber en un grado ético elevado habrá llevado a cabo su cometido. Esto es del todo suficiente para una vida. ¿Es, además, «valioso»? Pero ¿qué es valioso salvo el conocimiento de la vida para nosotros mismos y el vivir para otro(s)?

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. – Charles Dickens

Real kindness seeks no return; What return can the world make to rain clouds? ~ Tiruvalluvar

With his intellectual rigor goes a great generosity of spirit.

What is love? Love is not a collection of words, a sonnet, music or art. Love is the act of you not existing so that someone else can.

It is morally and legally okay to show genuine concern for other people.

Levinas's thought emphasizes not the primacy of the self, but the primacy of the other—that is, other human beings. He taught that the self comes into existence

no matter how inconvenient it was to him. That's what love's all about.

But my parents believed that if you've been blessed, you have an obligation to make a positive impact on the world. Altruism must run in the family.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

To give support should be commonplace in our society, not to be asked for.