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Quotes About Altruism

Jesuit theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said, "The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others." Anyone who has unselfishly helped another person knows this to be true.
~ John C. Maxwell
GIVE FIRST, NO MATTER WHAT YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES MAY BE.
~ John C. Maxwell
produce second-mile followers. If you go out of your way to care about others and help them, then they will go out of their way to help you when you ask them to.
~ John C. Maxwell
Sometimes you have to hurt someone, to be able to help. - Spencer Hastings
~ Unknown
Make giving your habit and doors of forgiveness will be opened for you.
~ Unknown
Following Christ's example, we have to learn to give ourselves completely. Anything else is not enough.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
An adultress passed by a dog at a well; and the dog was holding out his tongue from thirst, which was near killing him, and the woman drew off her boot, and tied it to the end of her garment, and drew water for the dog, and gave him to drink; and she was forgiven for that act.
~ Muhammad
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
~ Herman Melville
Always be the reason of someone's happiness never just be a part of it. Be a part of someone's sadness never be the reason for it.
~ Unknown
Some people just act like they are trying to help you..
~ Unknown
Fake people are only nice when it's convenient for them. Genuinely nice people go out of their way to help others.
~ Unknown
A person's First Obligation Should Be To Help The Member Of His Own Family Before He Can Begin Thinking Of Talking About Helping Others. Remember, Charity Begins At Home.
~ Unknown
Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.
~ Thomas Huxley
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
~ Titus Maccius Plautus
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
~ Chilo
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
~ Eustace Budgell
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
The good man is the friend of all living things
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?
~ Dag Hammarskjold
He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.
~ Montaigne
There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish
~ Alfred Adler
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
~ Seneca