Quotes about Altruism

Ask?da ekmek: there is bread on the hook. It's an ancient tradition in Turkey. When buying a loaf at the local bakery, you can choose to pay for an extra loaf and, after bagging your purchase, the owner will hang the second loaf on a hook on the wall. If a person in need comes by, he or she can ask if there's anything on the hook. If so, the bread is shared, and the hunger is relieved.

Power used to be about giving, not getting.

If you were to write your life motto, what would it say? Look out for number one? Or look out for the needs of others?

Life isn't about what you have but what you have to give.

A life not lived for others is not a life, a game not played for others is not a game.

Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves? Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

What you make happen for others, GOD will make happen for you.

There is within each one of us a potential for goodness beyond our imagining; for giving which seeks no reward; for listening without judgment; for loving unconditionally.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it'.