Quotes about Altruism
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
- Booker T. Washington
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
- Booker T. Washington
The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
- Booker T. Washington
In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.
- Booker T. Washington
You cannot be a Big person with a Small heart.
- Bishop TD Jakes
Love is giving, not taking.
- Ted Dekker
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received--only what you have given.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
Upon this, Bernard went and sold all that he had. Now he was very rich, and with great joy he distributed his wealth to widows, to orphans, to prisoners, to monasteries, to hospitals, and to pilgrims, in all which St Francis assisted him with prudence and fidelity.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
I have nothing, I owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.
- Francois Rabelais
The success or failure of a given day is measured by the quality of our interest and compassion toward those around us. We define ourselves by our response to human need. The question is not how we feel about our neighbor but what we have done for him or her. We reveal our heart in the way we listen to a child, speak to the person who delivers mail, bear an injury, and share our resources with the indigent.
- Brennan Manning
Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life...all of our life.
- Henri Nouwen
Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.
- Henri Nouwen