Altruism Quote by Raymond E. Feist Download Open image “Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.” — Raymond E. Feist ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Altruism Benefits Cold Generosity Gutters Littles Lying
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Chronically insecure people easily lose their altruism, tolerance, and respect for non-conformity. If they have no alternative on offer, they can be led to… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
So, without being cold, you really have to try to retain the capacity to help people without becoming too emotional or allowing your own… — Guy Green Copy Share Image
Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove… — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
Those who act the coldest are sometimes those who are most emotional deep inside, but have suffered so much that they have to act… — Sarah Moores Copy Share Image
“When in a cold state, we do not appreciate how much our desires and our behavior will be altered when we are “under the… — Richard H. Thaler Copy Share Image
“Being poor produces a way of responding to life circumstances that, while warm and giving, is continually vigilant to threat and chronically stressed in… — Dacher Keltner Copy Share Image
“generosity involved in proactively forgiving other people. This form of generosity, and the positive feelings it evokes in generous forgivers, have been shown by… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
“Otherish givers may appear less altruistic than selfless givers, but their resilience against burnout enables them to contribute more.” — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all. — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“Knowing what things are not is often as important as knowing what they are.” — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead. — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“Kings and marshals can look back and relive their triumphs, their great victories. We common folk must take what pleasure we can from life's… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There's… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“All right, me darlings. You heard the Captain. Look around and tell ol'Biggo what you thieving rascals grabbed when you ran for your lives!” — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
I keep threatening to write a non-fantasy book, and they keep offering me the kind of money I can't refuse to write a fantasy.… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
I don't like fantasy where a king snaps his fingers and suddenly a whole army appears and goes off to war - he's got… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“It takes a female to have a baby, It takes a woman to raise a child, It takes a mother to raise them correctly,… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“...True classical dropouts in society are those who avoid difficult challenges and cling to the first opportunity that comes their way. They never test… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Take a stand that reflects the widest horizons of your soul if you don’t want to be a slave to external powers.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it runs exactly… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
“Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“…the purpose of life is to nurture joy, which involves those aspects of humanity that enrich the soul.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Effective altruism is the form of altruism in which we bring our rational capacities to bear in order to do the most good that… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Societies and people that come close to being happy are those that do well in narrowing the disparity between their desires and their needs,… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
