Quotes about Altruism
The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
- Joseph Campbell
Wisdom in relationships involves a selfless desire to do what's best for the other person.
- Joshua Harris
I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
- Victor Hugo
Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
- William Hazlitt
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'
- Joseph Addison
Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.
- Marianne Williamson
The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.
- St. John Chrysostom
No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.
- Andrew Carnegie
The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
- Ambrose of Milan
A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves .
- DL Moody
A man should make all he can, and give all he can.
- Nelson Rockefeller