Quotes about Altruism
To love and to be loved, one must do good to others. The inevitable condition whereby to become blessed, is to bless others.
- Mary Baker Eddy
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.
- Girolamo Savonarola
Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.
- Aristotle
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
- Leo Buscaglia
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
- Desmond Tutu
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
- Michael Novak
True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.
- Thomas Merton
Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme.
- Nikolai Berdyaev
Love looks around to see who is in need
- TB Joshua
True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.
- Josh McDowell
Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no one….
- Pope John Paul II