Quotes about Altruism
Generosity is the best investment.
- Diane von Furstenberg
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
- John Adams
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
- George Washington
This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.
- Cicero
We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed for which you cannot be repaid.
- Max Lucado
Do you think that the man-loving God has given you much so that you could use it only for your own benefit? No, but so that your abundance might supply the lack of others.
- St. John Chrysostom
Power flows to those who serve.
- Tony Robbins
Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional.
- Amy Grant
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love is put in the giving.
- Mother Teresa
Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.
- John Wesley
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson