Quotes about Altruism

It's meaningless to live a long life if you think only about yourself, and give no thought to caring about others.

He who hath true and perfect charity, in no wise seeketh his own good, but desireth that God alone be altogether glorified. He envieth none, because he longeth for no selfish joy; nor doth he desire to rejoice in himself, but longeth to be blessed in God as the highest good.

He doth much who loveth much. He doth much who doth well. He doth well who ministereth to the public good rather than to his own.

Charity is love; not all love is charity.

Man should not consider his material possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need

On the contrary, The Philosopher says (Ethic. ix, 8): "Love for others comes of love for oneself.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

Happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.

We were designed to love and when we do, something good develops inside. We feel clean, rich, whole. Even better, we become less concerned with how we feel and more concerned with the lives of others.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.