Quotes about Altruism
Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.
— Cicero
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
— Theodore Roosevelt
No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy.
— Thomas Monson
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.
— Laurence Sterne
It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.
— Marcus Aurelius
No man can help another without helping himself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
— Ashley Montagu
A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.
— John Milton
The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.
— St. Augustine
I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
— Abraham Lincoln
Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
— Mahatma Gandhi