The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Altruism is the best source of happiness. There is no doubt about that. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel. — J. D. Greear Copy Share Image
The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give. — Sparky Anderson Copy Share Image
The most compassionate form of giving is done with no thought or expectation of reward, and grounded in genuine concern for others. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I may be an atheist, but am not against religion because atheist's have nothing to replace the structure of church charity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
In my clinical practice, the one diagnosis I always dreaded giving was Alzheimer's. Billions have been spent on research, but there's still… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
There's real evidence that getting involved in charitable activity (and it's probably better to give your time and effort, rather than money)… — Peter Kinderman Copy Share Image
If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
I run a bunch of charities and I say this line to people: 'I am somebody who has always been helped.' A… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
“In scattering the seed, scattering your 'charity,' your kind deeds, you are giving away, in one form or antoher, part of your… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“today, givers like Adam Rifkin are able to spark a more powerful form of reciprocity. Instead of trading value, Rifkin aims to… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
The good people of Dakota offered to give Calvin Coolidge a farm if he would live on it. I wouldn't advise you… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I shall not miss the hectoring and backbiting and the lack of generosity towards fallen foes, but I will miss the sheer… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
Because the bill vests in the said incorporated church an authority to provide for the support of the poor and the education… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
