Quotes About Altruism

Exercise your heart by lifting other people up!" ~Michelle Cole

People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.

We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

All too often those who extol most loudly the virtues of selflessness turn out to be motivated by greed and ambition.

So people take intelligence very seriously, because the mental ability we call by that name can be measured by tests; whereas few bother about how sensitive, altruistic, or helpful someone is, because as yet there is no good way to measure such qualities.

That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any day of the week; at least you can play chicken with him and know he'll stick to the rules.

all thoughts, no matter how altruistic, always end up being self-centred in some way if you give them long enough

And so must learn to love with our mouths and voices, as well as with our eyes, flesh, heart, brains, and with everything we have, right down to our toenails. There is not anything about us that cannot love, and that is not called to love, and that is not destined to be turned, conformed, and reduced to pure love. It ...is the priceless deposit left by the burning away of selfishness.

Whatever you have been given is what someone needs.....

My goal in life is to make everyone else happy and when I'm happy I try to make them believe they're the cause of it

From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish, sincerely and energetically.

I don't actually understand the meaning of generosity. It means giving to people and expecting nothing in return. It doesn't mean giving to someone with the expectation, or even hope, that they will regale you with praise for being such a generous person. I realized that I'm fine with giving, but I'm bad at generosity.

Help others for all the times that you have been ignored. Be kind to others, for all the times that you have been scorned.

What good is self-cultivation and wisdom if you just keep it for yourself? Knowledge is meant to be used, and if you can use it on behalf of others, you should.

Above all, be compassionate. This is a stand against all evil and it opens your spirit.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as is one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists.

For no man has adherents on the day of woe. I gave to the beggar, I raised the orphan, I gave success to the poor as to the wealthy..

She loved him for his own sake, and therefore she would rather have suffered his absence if he flourished than to have enjoyed his presence if he languished; her sorrow over his avoidable languishing would overshadow her delight in his presence. For a lover, it is more blessed to give than to receive, even when giving pierces the lover's heart.

God doesn't give in order to acquire. God loves without self-seeking; that's at the heart of who God is. God gives for the benefit of others.

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor.

The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.