Quotes about Altruism
Look at every Zion society from ancient times to present, and you find at its center love for others.
- Joseph Wirthlin
See how these Christians love one another.
- Tertullian
Man is born for deeds of kindness.
- Marcus Aurelius
It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.
- Marcus Aurelius
Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.
- Cicero
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
- Theodore Roosevelt
No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy.
- Thomas Monson
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.
- Laurence Sterne
It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.
- Marcus Aurelius
No man can help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
- Ashley Montagu
A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.
- John Milton