Quotes about Altruism
If you need encouragement, give it. If you need love, give it.Whatever you need, give it away.
— Adrian Rogers
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
— Teresa of Avila
Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.
— Mother Teresa
Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others.
— Andy Stanley
Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.
— Francis de Sales
Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.
— Mother Teresa
Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.
— Dorothy Day
To love and to be loved, one must do good to others. The inevitable condition whereby to become blessed, is to bless others.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.
— Girolamo Savonarola