Quotes about Altruism
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
- Khalil Gibran
You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice.
- Kris Vallotton
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
- George W. Bush
There is no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting up another.
- Anonymous
One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
The love we give away is the only one we keep.
- Elbert Hubbard
A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.
- CS Lewis
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can.
- Anonymous
Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.
- Sojourner Truth
The soul is awakened through service.
- Erica Jong
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
- Mortimer Adler
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
- Charles Dickens