Quotes on Altruism

“Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.”


– Erol Ozan



“We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.”


– Jane Goodal



“I said to my children, ‘I’m going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don’t ever want you to forget that there are millions of God’s children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don’t want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be.”


– Martin Luther King Jr.



“If compassion induced misery, then it would be questionable. Why practice something that brings us more trouble? But that is certainly not the case with compassion. Just imagine if we all lived with no compassion, thinking only of ourselves. We would suffer greatly. The more you think of others, the happier you are.”


– Dalai Lama