Quotes about Altruism

The only ones among us who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

All of us have to be committed to a life beyond our own aspirations.

If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

I've always been attracted to girls whose hearts are the biggest thing about them. People can be very sweet and kind to others who can do a lot for them. I want to find a girl who will be the same person to those who can't do anything for her in return.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

The ministerial work must be managed purely for God and the salvation of the people, and not for any private ends of our own.

Every man therefore is bound to do all the good he can to others, especially for the church and commonwealth.

I am not preoccupied with collecting more goods and services; quite simply, my desire and effort—every day—is to pay back, to give back to the world a bit of what I have received.

As the Dalai Lama says, "My religion is kindness; my only religion is kindness.