Quotes about Altruism
If you are willing to give yourself away, you will have a much better life than you ever would have had trying to keep yourself.
— Joyce Meyer
I have now learned that we do not even know what "happy" is until we forget about ourselves, start focusing on others, and become generous givers.
— Joyce Meyer
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God.
— Walt Whitman
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
— Walt Whitman
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
— James Barrie
Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.
— James Freeman Clarke
Love is selfless! Love is "you before me" decision making. Need it shorter? Love = Ub4me! There it is.
— James MacDonald
He had been taught that bread unshared is bread unblessed when someone else is hungry, whether man or beast, friend or stranger.
— Dorothy West
The memory of a good deed lives.
— Aesop
I'll get involved in philanthropy.
— Hillary Clinton
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.
— St. Augustine
Do not withhold good . . . when it is in your power to do it.
— Rachel Hauck