Quotes About Altruism

No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.

Jesu Liebe, das ist die Liebe, die keinen Schmerz, keinen Verzicht, kein Leiden scheut, wenn es dem anderen hilft.

Es gibt kaum ein beglückenderes Gefühl, als zu spüren, daß man für andere Menschen etwas sein kann.

If I'm called on to shed my blood, it doesn't matter because it's for the good of everyone else.

No és el mateix, Domènec. Jo sacrifico la meva persona, i per això tinc dret a sacrificar els qui estimo. Tu, en canvi, sacrifiques els qui dius que estimes sense sacrificar-te tu mateix.

Sé que no tot és pur. Però hi ha una cosa que no puc suportar: el sentiment del meu propi benestar quan els altres, tants d'altres!, encara no han pogut trobar el seu.

Jo ja havia comprès que sempre cal actuar a despit dels qui no s'ho mereixen, que cal sacrificar-se pels altres, àduch pels qui us trairan; que allò que compta és la propia noblesa, no la traïció dels altres.

In your quest to succeed and make money, don't forget to do something for others.

God is love. Thus when we love with the love of charity, our actions are the actions of God.

to become a saint one had to suffer much, seek out always the most perfect thing to do, and forget self.

Charity is the EXCELLENT WAY that leads most surely to God.

C'est lorsque l'on donne du peu que l'on a que l'on donne vraiment.

We do not tremble except for ourselves, or for those whom we love.

the sweetness to be found in generosity

and miserable it is to be to others cause of misery...

That who advances his glory, not their own,   Them he himself to glory will advance.

Tidak ada penggandaan yang lebih cepat dan hebat daripada penggandaan akan kebaikan hati.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

If we're others-centered, we'll be blessed, but if we're clothed in selfishness, we'll be of limited value to others.

He decided he'd rather die as a fundamentally decent human being than live as the sort of asshole who'd tear out someone's liver to get into an escape pod.

at the moment, the number of fundamentally selfish and self-interested people that human civilization could tolerate, particularly in the social tranche that could actually have an impact on the fate of humanity, had shrunk considerably

I mean, I don't know that I was actually planning to possibly die tonight in order to protect a kaiju, Kahurangi said. But I might be willing to possibly die to save a kaiju and ten thousand Canadians. Now we know what motivates you, I said. Ten thousand Canadians.

It takes a special kind of pathetic loser to help someone you hate just to make his girlfriend happy, I thought.

Kiva had been struck by a realization that, if not exactly an epiphany, was certainly enough to make her stop in her tracks: Either she was going to have to become less fundamentally selfish, or she was going to have to find a way to make others less so.