Quotes about Altruism

We were designed to love and when we do, something good develops inside. We feel clean, rich, whole. Even better, we become less concerned with how we feel and more concerned with the lives of others.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you. And when you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

Duty, Tattycoram. Begin it early, and do it well; and there is no antecedent to it, in any origin or station, that will tell against us with the Almighty, or with ourselves.

Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business.

This world abounds indeed with misery: to lighten its burthen we must divide it with one another.

But if all things equally fall short of this dignity, one thing there is that is not beneath the dignity of God, and that is, to do good to him that needed it.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Be men and women with others and for others: true champions at the service of others.

The only place you will find love before sacrifice is in the dictionary.