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Quotes About Altruism

Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting.
~ Samuel Johnson
No act of kindness is wasted.
~ William Watson Purkey
Kindness is produced by kindness.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
~ P. D. James
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
~ Lin Yutang
Everything we now enjoy has been provided through the kindness of other beings, past or present.
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Kindness is a highly underrated quality.
~ Pam Ferris
Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.
~ Betty White
The effect of one good-hearted person is incalculable.
~ Óscar Arias
There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved.
~ Cobie Smulders
There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.
~ David Foster Wallace
I always say that kindness is the greatest beauty that you can have.
~ Andie MacDowell
the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
~ Margaret Halsey
If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.
~ Nhat Hanh
The good deed you do today, for a brother or sister in need will come back to you some day, for humanity's a circle in deed.
~ Robert Alan Aurthur
Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
~ Eric Hoffer
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
~ Seneca the Younger
We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.
~ Joseph Joubert
A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination, and kindness.
~ Dalai Lama
There can be no greater act of kindness than to help others when your own world has been destroyed.
~ Barbara Stocking
It is higher and nobler to be kind.
~ Mark Twain
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
~ Nazr Mohammed