Quotes about Altruism
Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
— Anne Frank
The poison of selfishness destroys the world.
— Catherine of Siena
Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.
— Dolly Parton
It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
— Ambrose of Milan
Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable.
— Glenn Beck
Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.
— Richard Paul Evans
We love those whom we serve (p. 26)
— Richard Paul Evans
Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.
— Richard Paul Evans
The surest way to minimize your own burdens is to carry someone else's.
— Richard Paul Evans
The measure of love isn't how much you want someone. It's revealed in what you want for them.
— Richard Paul Evans
It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity—awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime.
— Richard Paul Evans