Altruism Quotes

"Choosing to be kind is choosing to bless your life and the lives of others" "True love is the desire to give, coupled with the realization that it is impossible to receive in return." "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends" "One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship and compassion" "Greater love has no one than this to lay down one’s life for one’s friends" "You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself." "Man serves the interests of no creature except himself." "A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference." "Your life is not just about you. It's also about contributing to others." "The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea" "To move forward, you have to give back." "I mean, why have 52 rooms and you know there's somebody with no room? It just don't make sense to me" "A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer" "If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment or an enlarged egotism" "We are on earth to help others; what the others are here for, I don't know " "Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts that simply do not make evolutionary sense" "If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it." "Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness." "What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like" "A man’s true wealth is the good he does in this world "