Quotes about Altruism

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself.

If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God.

Those of us who attempt to act and do things for others or for the world without deepening our own self-understanding, freedom, integrity, and capacity to love, will not have anything to give others. We will communicate to them nothing but the contagion of our own obsessions, our aggressivity, our ego-centered ambitions, our delusions about ends and means.

Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.

As long as we secretly adore ourselves, our own deficiencies will remain to torture us with an apparent defilement. But if we live for others, we will gradually discover that no one expects us to be "as gods." We will see that we are human, like everyone else, that we all have weaknesses and deficiencies, and that these limitations of ours play a most important part in all our lives.

For love does not seek a joy that follows from its effect: its joy is in the effect itself, which is the good of the beloved...love, therefore, is its own reward.

If any man would save his life, he must lose it," and, "Love one another as I have loved you." It is also contained in another saying from St. Paul: "We are all members one of another.

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Who can be good, if not made so by loving? —St. Augustine