Quotes about Altruism
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.
— Albert Einstein
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.
— Albert Schweitzer
True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.
— Confucius
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
— Elbert Hubbard
To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.
— St. Augustine
The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.
— Henry Ford
If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.
— David O. McKay
No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others
— Albert Schweitzer
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
— Aristotle
We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.
— Brigham Young