Quotes about Altruism

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors - between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.

Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont

Aren't they all acting on a selfish motive—to be noticed, liked, admired?" "—by others. At the price of their own self-respect. In the realm of greatest importance—the realm of values, of judgment, of spirit, of thought—they place others above self, in the exact manner which altruism demands. A truly selfish man cannot be affected by the approval of others. He doesn't need it.

It's not about you.

It is better to help an enemy than to harm a friend.

If you want your inner light to shine brighter, illuminate someone else's.

Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.

If you want to double your happiness, pour it into someone else.

The happiest people in the world are those who give happiness to others.

Let all that you do be done in love.

To love is to will the good of the other.