Quotes about Altruism
Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.
— Confucius
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
— Lewis Carroll
Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.
— Mother Teresa
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
— Helen Keller
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
— Albert Einstein
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
— John Wooden
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
— Mark Twain
It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.
— Marcus Aurelius
Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
— Cicero
Non nobis solum nati sumus. ( Not for ourselves alone are we born. )
— Cicero
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson