Quotes About Altruism

And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?

I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.

Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.

By doing good, we do well.

My characters come from a good place.

Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.

Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions he had money as well.

A good heart is a universal key that opens the door of the unthinkable gate of goodness

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

Compassion comes from the heart, not the government.

Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Doing great things for others is an awesome gift to give yourself.

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

There is great joy in doing something for somebody else with no thought in receiving anything in return.

...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.

Find happiness in making others happy.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.