Quotes about Altruism

We can not build our own future without helping others build theirs.

To love as God loves, in other words, you may have to part with whatever is most precious to you for the sake of someone else.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.

In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.

You cannot be a Big person with a Small heart.

Love is giving, not taking.

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received--only what you have given.

Upon this, Bernard went and sold all that he had. Now he was very rich, and with great joy he distributed his wealth to widows, to orphans, to prisoners, to monasteries, to hospitals, and to pilgrims, in all which St Francis assisted him with prudence and fidelity.

I have nothing, I owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.