Quotes about Altruism
Selfishness at the expense of others' happiness is demonism.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
— Henry Ward Beecher
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
— Lewis Carroll
One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
— Lewis Carroll
Charity is the root of all good works.
— St. Augustine
I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and that is how I think we have to work.
— Wayne Dyer
Jesus has very clearly said in the gospel. "Whatever you do, do to the least of my brethren." Clear? That was the work of Jesus.
— Mother Teresa
The reason why things work is because of love.
— Jeffrey Wright
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
— George Bernard Shaw
Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.
— Desmond Tutu
No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
— Calvin Coolidge
We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.
— Thomas Merton