Quotes about Altruism
If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The American way is to not need help, but to help.
— Anne Lamott
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
— George Washington
No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
— Phillips Brooks
He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
— John Bunyan
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
— Ayn Rand
One thing that has to cease among Christians is the appeal to an audience to give with the promise of getting something.
— Scot McKnight
I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.
— Mark Twain
To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.
— Mark Twain
It is higher and nobler to be kind.
— Mark Twain
Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.
— Mark Twain
Do right for your own sake, and be happy in knowing that your neighbor will certainly share in the benefits resulting.
— Mark Twain