Quotes about Altruism
The greatest gift you can open is your heart to someone in need.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.
— Joseph Wirthlin
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
— Elie Wiesel
If your suffering splashes others, those around you, those for whom you represent a reason to live, then you must kill it, choke it.
— Elie Wiesel
Once we begin to regard the well-being of others as integral to our own, we overcome the paralysis of competing rights, which rationalizes innocent suffering.
— Elie Wiesel
Help each other. That is the only way to survive.
— Elie Wiesel
intercession is the highest expression of love - it is pure giving, teach me such love dear Lord
— Elisabeth Elliot
It's not what you get, but what you give that is God's true measure of a life.
— Elizabeth George
Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
— Anne Frank
The poison of selfishness destroys the world.
— Catherine of Siena
Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.
— Dolly Parton