Quotes about Altruism

Generosity is not so much a virtuous act as it is a virtuous response.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

When I was a kid, I'd always tell myself if I ever grew up to have money, I'd help even more people than I do when I didn't have any money.

Every good relationship we have is a gift of God's grace. Left to ourselves, nothing good would happen. Our problem has everything to do with sin and our potential has everything to do with Christ. Sin always draws towards self-interest. It is possible that even in our most altruistic moments are driven by what we get out of them

The call to self-emptying will always be unpopular to those whose pockets and closets are full. What

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

There is no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting up another.

One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

The love we give away is the only one we keep.

A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.