Quotes About Altruism

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

A good way to forget your troubles is to help others out of theirs.

I don't think you're much good, unless you're doing good to someone.

So the smart brain must be balanced with a warm heart, a good heart -a sense of responsibility, of concern for the well-being of others.

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Don't give until it hurts, give until it feels good.

You should never do something kind in hopes of recognition. Do it because its right. Do it because it makes you feel good.

If you focus more on the inside, you'll feel just as great about the outside. I feel attractive when I'm doing good and helping people.

A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind.

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Good will cannot flow toward you unless it flows from you.

As long as I'm a good person and I do things from the heart, that's all that matters.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

A sick body with a good heart is more beneficial to future lives than a fit, healthy body that is used for self-cherishing.

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

I want to be a good human being.

I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?

There are always going to be jerks in the world . . . [but] there are more good people on this earth than bad people, and the good people watch out for each other and take care of each other.

Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.

Doing good for the community is something that should be a part of who you are. The more you get, the more you should give back.