Quotes about Altruism
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.
— Laurence Sterne
It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.
— Marcus Aurelius
No man can help another without helping himself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
— Ashley Montagu
A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.
— John Milton
The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.
— St. Augustine
I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
— Abraham Lincoln
Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.
— Mahatma Gandhi
To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men.
— Mark Twain