Quotes About Altruism

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Keep doing good deeds long enough and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

I believe everybody in the world should try to help somebody else. Let's say half the people in the world are successful. If they help the other half, hey, you've got no problem.

What I've learned is that the more you help people, the longer you live. The good feelings are a healing process.

Self Sacrifice Kills the person who sacrifices

I've been desperately unhappy in my life." Her voice was quiet. "Have you, Chief Inspector?" It wasn't a response he could have predicted. He nodded. "I thought so. I think people who have had that experience and survived have a responsibility to help others. We can't let someone drown where we were saved.

Kindness beats cruelty.

who would want to kill kindness.

So pity is the near enemy of compassion,' said Gamache slowly, mulling it over. 'That's right. It looks like compassion, acts like compassion, but is actually the opposite of it. And as long as pity's in place there's not room for compassion. It destroys, squeezes out, the nobler emotion.

The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.

To do something however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

Gentil é uma palavra como caridade; implica um esforço. Como aquela frase de para-choque de caminhão que fala de gestos aleatórios de gentileza. Gentil deveria ser o modo como uma pessoa é sempre, não um gesto que ela opta por fazer.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History.

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Chi è incapace di servire il prossimo, vuole dominarlo.

Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.

most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us.

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.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, Dr. King had said, what are you doing for others?

What good was a personal victory to someone who'd spent her life losing herself for the greater good of everyone else?

He was the kind of dog whose heart was too big for his own body, and so he continuously offered it up to me.

where all the differences in schooling and money and skin colour evaporated like mirages in a desert. Where everyone was equal, and it was just one woman, helping another.