Quotes About Altruism

Is just being a good person enough? No, you have to benefit everyone you meet. Even if they hurt you. Never stop making the world a better place.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Understand how beautifully God has added one more day in your life - not because you need it, but because someone else needs you.

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.

A true brave man is the one who dares to work against seft-interest.

To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.

If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.

How do you measure the life of one person against the greater good? Can it ever be the right thing to sacrifice an innocent person? And how do you know what the greater good really is?

Life demands death. Life demands death to ego – A state when we only think and care about ourselves.

The noblest life is the one laid down for another.

Selfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

What we desire for ourselves, we wish for all

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

I don't think there's anything immature about fighting for the underdog and fighting for people who don't have a voice. I have an intense desire to protect people who can't protect themselves.

When you see your own desire to be happy, you can't avoid seeing the same desire in others.

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being

Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.

Many Democrats are sincere in their desire to help others.

My true desire is to relieve others of their pain, though I myself may fall into hell.

Reciting part of a sutra with the desire to benefit others is like reciting a recipe in the hope it will prevent people from starving.

Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.