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Quotes About Altruism

Kindness is the essence of greatness.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.
~ Cory Booker
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Practice random acts of kindness, the world needs it more than you think
~ Boonaa Mohammed
Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return, not even a thank-you. The universal all-creating Spirit responds to acts of kindness with the response: "How may I be kind to you?"
~ Wayne Dyer
I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.
~ Kyra Sedgwick
Constant Kindness can accomplish much.
~ Albert Schweitzer
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.
~ Margaret Cho
Showing kindness to others is one of the nicest things we can do for ourselves.
~ Janette Oke
Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
~ Maimonides
Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
Thank all the people in the world who are always 10% kinder than they need to be.
~ Helen Exley
All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.
~ John Wesley
The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart.
~ Dalai Lama XIV
...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
~ Andre Gide
The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.
~ Louis de Bernieres
Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.
~ David Levithan
One of the ultimate things a human can learn is kindness for their fellow humans
~ Evan Tanner
Every act of kindness and compassion toward others gets multiplied when they, in turn, pass it on. One by one the world becomes a better place. Service is indeed the gift that keeps on giving.
~ Joan Z. Borysenko
No matter how little you have, you can always give some of it away.
~ Catherine Marshall
He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.
~ James M. Barrie
If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled.
~ Publilius Syrus
Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.
~ Laozi