Quotes about Altruism
On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
— Edith Stein
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
Live simply so that others may simply live.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
— Maya Angelou
It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.
— Aristotle
Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.
— Deepak Chopra
The question of bread for myself is a material question; but the question of bread for my neighbour, for everybody, is a spiritual and a religious question.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
The greatest spiritual blessing comes from helping another.
— David O. McKay
Lend your ears to the deaf, your eyes to the blind, your hands to the weak, your tongue to the mute, your mind to the perplexed, and your heart to the weary.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Our highest deeds come from helping the lowest people.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
— Albert Einstein
Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
— Albert Einstein