Quotes about Altruism

It is impossible to be both selfish and happy

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.