Quotes about Altruism
The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.
- Confucius
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.
- Mother Teresa
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
- Albert Einstein
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain
It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.
- Marcus Aurelius
Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
- Cicero
It's been said thousands of times, in all faiths and philosophies. Know thyself. What may be less clear in these wise expressions is the reason we learn to know ourselves: we develop a knowledge of self so that we can give up the self and serve others.
- Margaret J. Wheatley