#Altruism Quotes

“Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.”

“You will never find a truly happy self-centered person. They simply don't exist.”

“When you SEEK HAPPINESS for yourself, it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for OTHERS, you will find it yourself.”

“It is impossible for me to waste my time in helping another person.”

“You measure success by how much good you do for others.”

“There's not a day I live that doesn't start with me getting up and first saying, "What can I do for somebody else?" Whether that means sending something to one of my children or picking up the phone and calling a stranger who is in the hospital, I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself.”

“The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.”

“If you could help millions of people, you can certainly make millions of dollars. I try to influence everyone I know to be a giver because the person that benefits most by giving is the giver.”

“The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others”

“The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.”

“Even the least work done for others awakens the power within.”

“They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.”

“We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.”

“Give, expecting nothing there of.”

“In one way, I want to heal people.”

“It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.”

“Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?”

“Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.”

“Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own; but when they see it proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.”

“The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.”

“If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.”

“Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.”

“The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”

“Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.”

“What are you doing for others?”

“True giving happens when we give from our heart.”

“The more we help others, the more we help ourselves”

“I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.”

“Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times.”

“I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.”

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”

“Live simply so that others may simply live.”

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'”

“I choose to identify with the underprivileged, I choose to give my life for the hungry, I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity . . . this is the way I'm going. If it means suffering, I'm going that way. If it means dying for them, I'm going that way, because I heard a voice saying DO SOMETHING FOR OTHERS.”

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

“To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service, whenever and wherever needed, without prejudice concerning the identity of those in need.”

“It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe”

“Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.”

“Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.”

“For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back with gold; If thy life be rescued, life do not withhold. Thus the words and actions of the wise regard; Every little service tenfold they reward. But the truly noble know all men as one, And return with gladness good for evil done.”

“Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.”

“Selfless action is a source of strength.”

“Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.”

“If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.”

“As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.”

“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.”

“If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.”

“A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one.”

“I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.”