Quotes about Altruism
intercession is the highest expression of love - it is pure giving, teach me such love dear Lord
- Elisabeth Elliot
It's not what you get, but what you give that is God's true measure of a life.
- Elizabeth George
Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
- Anne Frank
The poison of selfishness destroys the world.
- Catherine of Siena
Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.
- Dolly Parton
It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
- Ambrose of Milan
Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable.
- Glenn Beck
Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.
- Richard Paul Evans
We love those whom we serve (p. 26)
- Richard Paul Evans
Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.
- Richard Paul Evans
The surest way to minimize your own burdens is to carry someone else's.
- Richard Paul Evans