Quotes about Altruism
TRUE HEROES are ordinary people, like You and Me, who have done EXTRA ORDINARY THINGS.
— Billy Graham
True love is an act of the will—a conscious decision to do what is best for the other person instead of ourselves.
— Billy Graham
Love actually is a great act of the will. It's when I say, "I desire your good, not for my sake but for yours". To love is to break out of the black hole of the ego and say, "My life is about you".
— Robert Barron
Never expect God to do for you what you don't do for others.
— Bob Marley
Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.
— Bob Marley
I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
— Booker T. Washington
Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
— Booker T. Washington
In order to be successful in any kind of undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause.
— Booker T. Washington
The one thing that is most worth living for—and dying for, if need be—is the opportunity of making some one else more happy and more useful.
— Booker T. Washington
Then very few persons have any idea of the large number of applications for help that rich people are constantly being flooded with.
— Booker T. Washington
I have often heard persons condemned for not giving away money, who, to my own knowledge, were giving away thousands of dollars every year so quietly that the world knew nothing about it.
— Booker T. Washington
Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. This
— Booker T. Washington