Quotes About Altruism

Leadership is the absence of self interest

A single act of kindness can change a life.

Love gives far more than it ever takes. And love makes us want to give. Words

helping someone should never guarantee even gratitude in return. Help given or received in the right way must stand on its own.

A decent world is built upon small acts of kindness.

No kindness is ever wasted, nor can we ever tell how much good may come of it.

Love is not a feeling; it is a commitment to act in the best interests of another.

God's Love does exactly the same thing. It's an unconditional giving of yourself for another with no strings attached.

As long as I live, when you need help, you will never need to beg anyone to notice. I won't just hang around thinking I ought to do something to help. I will act.

We experience the greatest happiness when we have touched the world and left it better, according to the Will of the Almighty.

Yet, kindness always pays back because giving is the payback.

Heroes prided themselves on a thing called generosity. And what was generosity? It was the giving away of something to those that had not earned it, and it was usually done by those that had not earned it.

this was the only answer she'd ever found to evil: to go on living and to help others live in happiness.

The hand that gives is above the hand that takes.

You give before you get.

Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.

At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given nor how much have you won, but how much have you done not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.

Objectivism comes on, sometimes, as if the most important issue you have to understand is the issue of egoism versus altruism. But thats nowhere near the beginning of the process.

True kindness isn't something we're born with. It's something we have to work at. Not everyone has it. But I think everyone has the potential. Sometimes you just have to look really close before you can tell it's there."-Kyoko

If only we'd been born into a kind world...without anxiety...without fear. If we could live without hurting other people...and without being hurt. A world in which we always did what was right. If only we could have found a shortcut to the kind world we all hope for.

We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person...so it's easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you.

The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!

Most omissions occur because we fail to get outside ourselves. We are so busy checking on our own temperatures that we do not notice the burning fevers of others even when we could offer them some of the needed remedies, such as encouragement, kindness, and commendation. The hands that hang down and most need to be lifted up belong to those too discouraged even to reach out anymore.

Compassion compels us to go further in love.