Quotes about Altruism
Men are only as great as they are kind.
- Elbert Hubbard
Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.
- Abraham Lincoln
Christopher Hitchens
- Mother Teresa
Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?
- Victor Hugo
There are men who work hard, digging for gold: he worked hard, digging for pity. The misery of the world was his mine. Pain everywhere was an occasion for goodness always.
- Victor Hugo
I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls
- Victor Hugo
True, I tore the drapery from the altar; but it was to dress the wounds of the country.
- Victor Hugo
Love one another dearly, always. Nothing else in the world really matters but that: to love one another.
- Victor Hugo
It has always belonged to the truly great and strong to care for the weak and feeble.
- Victor Hugo
Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?
- Richard Paul Evans
Sacrifice is the essence of love, which is the essence of God.
- Rick Warren
Wheresoever we seek our own, there we fall from love.
- Thomas a Kempis