Quotes About Altruism

Chip Conley, the renowned entrepreneur who founded Joie de Vivre Hotels, explains, "Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it's valuable in a marathon

There are two Great Forces of human nature: Self Interest and Caring for Others, and people are most successful when they are driven by a Hybrid Engine of the two.' If Takers are selfish, and Failed Givers are selfless: Successful Givers are 'otherish' - They care about benefitting others, but they also have ambitious goals for advancing their own interests.

When we shift our emphasis from behavior to character, people evaluate choices differently. Instead of asking whether this behavior will achieve the results they want, they take action because it is the right thing to do. In the poignant words of one Holocaust rescuer, "It's like saving somebody who is drowning. You don't ask them what God they pray too. You just go and save them.

Rasca a un altruista y verás sangrar a un hipócrita.

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

35If your kinsman, being in straits, comes under your authority, and you hold him as though a resident alien, let him live by your side: 36do not exact from him advance or accrued interest,* but fear your God. Let him live by your side as your kinsman. 37Do not lend him your money at advance interest, or give him your food at accrued interest.

22And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap all the way to the edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger: I the Lord am your God.

The common good before the individual good.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

I don't really want acknowledgement or want people to pat me on the back or whatever. I just want to help the people I feel like I can help and if there's an opportunity where I feel like I can help, I do it.

True patriotism is loving your country and countrymen enough to want to make it better.

Paul had the biggest heart in the world and he was such a good example.

Hell is paved with good samaritans.

If you can't pay it back, pay it forward.

Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

If you go about life the right way and you're good to other people that will show and will payoff in the long run.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world, and I am going to give away every penny before I die.

Around 80 per cent of my money goes to charity.

People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.

The biggest thing I've learned is that it's not about me. All of the things that I do have to be about bringing service to the world and helping people shift their perception.

I'm not the perfect person, but I have the perfect heart, I feel, when it comes to helping people.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.