Quotes about Altruism
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can.
— Anonymous
Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.
— Sojourner Truth
The soul is awakened through service.
— Erica Jong
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
— Mortimer Adler
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
— Charles Dickens
The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
— Joseph Campbell
Wisdom in relationships involves a selfless desire to do what's best for the other person.
— Joshua Harris
I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
— Victor Hugo
Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
— William Hazlitt
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'
— Joseph Addison
Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.
— Marianne Williamson
The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.
— St. John Chrysostom