Quotes About Altruism

Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.

But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?

Power moves with you when you have an intent to serve more than yourself.

What we want is not power, but simply combination in order to elicit the largest possible giving.

None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of world we live in.

Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

If every single person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to act a little kinder than is necessary—the world really would be a better place.

If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.

Ideally, a Stoic will be oblivious to the services he does for others, as oblivious as a grapevine is when it yields a cluster of grapes to a vintner. He will not pause to boast about the service he has performed but will move on to perform his next service, the way the grape vine moves on to bear more grapes.

Mercy is the best attribute of humanity. The is nothing wrong with it. - Dr. Danie Estevez

Pity would be no more,If we did not make somebody poor;And Mercy no more could be,If all were as happy as we.

Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's dispite.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade.

Always speak and act the truth, and be kind to all who need your help.

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

Good-nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

There is no end to the good you can do if you don't care who gets credit for it.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

Your greatness is measured by your kindness.

If ... a man measures life by what others do for him, he is apt to be disappointed, but if he measures life by what he does for others, there is no time for despair.