Quotes About Altruism

A president must serve only the common cause of the people of the United States.

If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

I've always believed that it's important to give something back to the world and community.

It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.

We are in this world to learn and embody compassion and love.

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

God is compassion.

I would say that the best compliment I have gotten is from teachers who say they can tell that my kids come from a big family because they can see that they anticipate other people's needs and they don't think the world revolves around them.

I know that if I concentrate on making other people shine, I will shine. It is really about the other person, never about you.

Ye are brothers, ye are men, and we conquer but to save.

Surround yourself with people that really care about not just you, but also the world and the things that you believe in.

We are surrounded every day by countless acts of immeasurable kindness and goodwill.

The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

In fact, if you think hard about it, animal conservation should actually be anathema to the Darwin-loving liberal agenda, which holds up evolution - and not altruistic compassion - as the final word on the survival of a species.

Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable.

In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.

I've always been attracted to girls whose hearts are the biggest thing about them. People can be very sweet and kind to others who can do a lot for them. I want to find a girl who will be the same person to those who can't do anything for her in return.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.