Quotes about Altruism

The measure of love isn't how much you want someone. It's revealed in what you want for them.

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity—awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime.

Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest. Zeke

Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness — sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.

In spiritual matters, the only real glory is in the renunciation of glorifying self.

Servants focus on others, not themselves. This is true humility: not thinking less of ourselves but thinking of ourselves less

It's only when we forget ourselves that we do the things that deserve to be remembered.

God determines greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.

Love means giving up - yielding my preferences, comfort, goals, security, money, energy, or time for the benefit of someone else.

It's one thing to be in love; it's another to act because of love. Love is a noun—a feeling you have—and it's also a verb, something you do.

Agape doesn't need a reason.