Quotes about Altruism

Mercy requires that we learn to love others, to value their welfare more than our own!

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

The honorary duty of a human being is to love.

Yes!" the carpenter exclaimed. "When you love, you serve, and when you serve, you sacrifice. Service requires a sacrifice of something. Whether it's time, energy, money, love, effort, or focus, serving others always costs you something, but with service and sacrifice, you gain so much more.

If we be never obliged to relieve others' burdens, but when we can do it without burdening ourselves, then how do we bear our neighbor's burdens, when we bear no burden at all?

In short, were a man to "give all his goods to feed the poor, and his body to be burned," out of zeal to promote some public good, yet without love to God, without benevolent attachment to universal being, he is morally nothing, or worse than nothing.

Our exceptionalness is not for us but for others. That is the paradox at the heart of who we are. So what makes us different has nothing to do with jingoism and nationalistic chest beating. If we have ever been great, it is only because we have been good. If we have ever been great, it is only because we have longed to help make others great too. That earnest humility and generosity must be attended to.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.