Quotes About Altruism

I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be helpful to others. That's enough. Change is possible.

Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

As desire abates, generosity is born. When we are connected and present, what else is there to do but give?

A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to save others and to save oneself.

If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore.

We obviously feel destiny and purpose and do what we do, but within that are ways to help others and to inspire others and to support and encourage people.

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

If I didn't feel that I was doing something or trying to do something for others, then I would have very little excuse for the life that I lead.

Laying my will down for Jesus was laying my life down for others.

The key lesson for me: Don't make this life about you. It's about other people.

We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others, always.

There is very little love in this world, and if you give love, you will get it back.

Who among you will love something more than you love yourself, all right?

Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.

My main ambition is to be of use to my country and my people.

I'd always step up to the mark to serve the people of the country.

Strolling through Bia?owieza's mass of life, one would never guess the role it played in Lutz Heck's ambitions, the Warsaw Zoo's fate, and the altruistic opportunism of Jan and Antonina, who capitalized on the Nazis' obsession with prehistoric animals and a forest primeval to rescue scores of endangered neighbors and friends.

I only did my duty—if you can save somebody's life, it's your duty to try.

In India, I learned a proverb that may seem somewhat heartless: "The tears of strangers are only water." It means we are obligated to help only our own; if others have a problem, we wish them well, but it's their problem.

I was so happy that I wanted to be kind to everyone in the world.

Doing things for others gives you a lovely glow. So does port, I said cynically.