Quotes about Altruism
We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!
- George H. W. Bush
It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.
- Simon Sinek
I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.
- Mother Teresa
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Light another's path and the universe will light your own.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest gift you can open is your heart to someone in need.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.
- Joseph Wirthlin
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
- Elie Wiesel
If your suffering splashes others, those around you, those for whom you represent a reason to live, then you must kill it, choke it.
- Elie Wiesel
Once we begin to regard the well-being of others as integral to our own, we overcome the paralysis of competing rights, which rationalizes innocent suffering.
- Elie Wiesel
Help each other. That is the only way to survive.
- Elie Wiesel