Quotes About Altruism

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.

Historians tell a story about Abraham Lincoln, that while returning to Washington from Springfield, he forced his entire party to stop to help some small birds he saw in distress. When chided by the others, he responded, quite plainly, "I could not have slept to-night if I had left those poor creatures on the ground and not restored them to their mother.

ponderando os seus serviços e seguindo a suavidade do seu espírito, queria poupar-lhe a vida e contentar-se em tirar-lhe os olhos.

If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell.

Si el honor y la sabiduría y la felicidad no son para mí, que sean para otros. Que el cielo exista, aunque mi lugar sea el infierno.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

The best way to help mankind is through the perfection of yourself.

The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

One of the many distinctions between the celebrity and the hero, he said, is that one lives for self while the other acts to redeem society.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Sedikit Pengertian, sedikit Perhatian untuk Orang Lain, akan membuat perubahan besar.

As base a thing as money often is, yet it can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food for the hungry and clothing for the poor. Any temporal possession can be turned into everlasting wealth. Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality. (A.W. Tozer)

Sometimes it's about more than your own happiness. Sometimes you have to think of other people.

The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Life is not meaningful to us unless serving an end beyond itself, unless it is of value to someone else.

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

Philipose quotes Gandhi: "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of food.

The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade.

Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it's valuable in a marathon.

The fear of being judged as weak or naïve prevents many people from operating like givers at work.