Quotes About Altruism

Not every man has shoes, so reduce the number of shoes at your home till every man has at least one!

The day you stop being compassionate, your adjective of human drops!

The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.

The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!

There is no rain beyond the clouds; there is no humanity beyond the compassion!

To be happy in absolute terms, along with our happiness, all the world must be happy so that we don't have to worry for anyone!

You cannot do anything good for a dead man! Whatever goodness you want to do for him, do it when he is alive!

It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.

Then choose another bond. One written by yourself. Because it is what you do for strangers that counts in the end.

If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.

good people deserve help

The Red Cross nurses came out to the train to give us coffee and doughnuts. Our officer, our captain, who was white, he said serve the Germans first. Our Red Cross nurses said, no, we'll serve our boys first.

This is living, not to live unto oneself alone.

From the feelings proper to it, [man's nature] is constituted for the practice of what is good.

There's no such thing as `one, true way'; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they're the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren't willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

You can't force people to be thankful just because in your mind they seem to benefit from what you're doing… especially when what you're doing is something you would do anyway, even without them as an excuse.

St. John of the Cross: "Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love.

a world populated by selfish people can never know peace.

To love mankind merely in the abstract", he once said, "is one face of a single coin, and on its other side is hatred of mankind in the abstract. To love in truth is to serve the suffering person before you, and to do what you can to assist him.

Not so, Tarek. The highest love is given without thought of cost or reward—anything less is not love.

If we are going to love, we will be able to love someone else even if we never get what we want.

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

2. It serves and inspires other beings and does not take from them or exploit them

The entire concept of pessimism crumbles the moment one human being puts aside thoughts of self and reaches out to another to minister to her suffering. The experience of either person can neither be denied nor adequately explained by a negative philosophy.