Quotes about Altruism

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

Learning to live for others isn't something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission; to be of service to them whenever they request it.

She] personally tended the unhappy and impoverished victims of hunger and disease. I have often seen her washing wounds which others — even men — could hardly bear to look at ... She founded a hospital and gathered there the sufferers from the streets, and gave them all the attention of a nurse... How often she carried home, on her shoulders, the dirty and poor who were plagued with epilepsy! How she washed the pus from sores which others could not even behold.

So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Charity is the root of all good works.

Love is shown more in deeds than in words.

Lord, teach me to be generous; Teach me to serve you as you deserve; To give and not to count the cost; To fight and not to heed the wounds; To toil, and not to seek for rest; To labor, and not to ask for reward - except to know that I am doing your will.

When one loves, one does not calculate.

Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.