Quotes About Altruism

Give what you possess.

The world is my country all mankind are my brethren and to do good is my religion.

All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.

Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

...truly loving someone is making that person happy even if you're not the reason behind it.

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn't open to anywhere good.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Helping others is like helping yourself.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

I tell young people: Do not think of yourself, think of others. Think of the future that awaits you, think about what you can do and do not fear anything.

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and do something for them we miss the greatest sources of happiness.

We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.