Quotes About Altruism

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive

My true religion is Kindness.

The sole source of peace in families, countries and the world is altruism – love and compassion.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Our lives of service and sacrifice are the most appropriate expressions of our commitment to serve the Master and our fellowmen.

Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give.

Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

something as simple as my care. I believe that caring for something or someone in need is what makes us human.

My faith is in the belief that sacrifice for others is inherently good and making the choice to do good is the gift of being human.

Why did Iwanski risk so much to save Jews? He told the author, "When a Jew cries, I cry. When a Jew suffers, I am a Jew. All are of my nation, for I am a man.

Why did Iwanski risk so much to save Jews? He told the author, "When a Jew cries, I cry. When a Jew suffers, I am a Jew. All are of my nation, for I am a man."i

Philanthropy is the market for love. It is the market for all those people for whom there is no other market coming.

People who love themselves, don't hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.

We either choose to be part of a community that stretches beyond ourselves, our material needs, and our creature comforts, or we do not. In our society, it is possible for the selfish and self-centered to live at the expense of the rest of the population.

This is the embodiment of heroic citizenship, a commitment to each other and to fixing problems. It is seeking solutions and not praise, progress and not personal aggrandizement. It is doing what is right for the sake of right.

Once in a while, I like to polish my halo by taking on a case pro bono.

was taught to give back. In the village, the old way, the right way, the one way is to give back, always somehow, in some way to give back.

Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.

Martin Luther King Jr. observed that those who failed to offer their aid asked themselves the question: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But the Good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man what will happen to him?