Quotes about Altruism

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Getters generally don't get happiness; givers get it.

There is no life as empty as the self-centered life. There is no life as centered as the self-empty life.

Paul the Apostle exhorted, "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others." 74 Make a mental and emotional commitment to look out for the interests of others.

One of the great ironies of life is that if you give up your life, you gain it. If you help others, you benefit. If you lose yourself, you find yourself.

You have not lived a perfect day, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for someone else. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Ambassador and poet Henry Van Dyke observed, "There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Give to others? Why? I have needs too

their success is more important to you than your success