Quotes about Altruism
Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
— Abraham Lincoln
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
— Ronald Reagan
I have a theory about the assists we get in life. Only rarely can we repay those people who helped us, but we can pass that help along to others.
— Lucille Ball
I can't do it for love of God, like Tom Tallis, or for heaven's sake, as Mr. Frost said. But because I love people I have to act according to it—to the fact that I love them.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Whatever we give, we have to give out of love. That, I believe, is the nature of God.
— Madeleine L'Engle
When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.
— Walt Whitman
Wealth is not to feed our egos, but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
— Andrew Carnegie
One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.
— Andrew Murray
I see what the joy is; it is the joy of always loving, it is the joy of losing my own life in love to others.
— Andrew Murray
We ought not to please ourselves. For even Christ pleased not Himself. Self-denial is the law of his life.
— Andrew Murray
Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?
— Samuel Johnson