Top 96 Life Altruism Quotes
#1. In the end, the only thing that really matters is how we treated all living things.
Ka Chinery
#2. There are people who bring joy to our lives, but who fail to make us happy. They are the people for the moment. Never rely on their love because it is not sustainable. Their love is alike a comet that illuminates the sky, but then fades away because it lacks the sustainable energy of the sun.
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#3. The narrow-minded find it convenient to create stereotypes, and then try to fit everybody, everything and every situation into those stereotypes.
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#4. Don't be afraid of those failures that do not lead to a loss of life or that do not incapacitate people.
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#5. We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.
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#6. Don't sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there's nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
Karl Lagerfeld
#7. Most people have this tendency to make judgments on others based on preconceptions, especially when they are dealing with them for the first time.
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#8. Male writers who never find the stabilizing force of an understanding woman in their lives usually end up as the jaded figures of their days, the types who give much artistic expression to the world, but who are lonely in their overcrowded worlds of love.
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#9. What is the purpose of wealth if it cannot serve an ideal that enhances humanity and betters the lives of the people, even if that means those we have never met before in our lives?
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#10. The scrupulous survivors in life are the best counterweight to unscrupulous survivors.
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#11. There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.
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#12. Altruism eventuates in all realities, else self-destruction consumes it.
Guy Lozier
#13. Isn't reality based on the prevailing culture, the trend that people want to identify with?
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#14. To live for others was to live fully; to live only for yourself, a cold kind of death.
Joe Hill
#15. Most of the truly kind people of this world show some measure of discomfort when offered kindness. Their gratitude stems not only from their understanding of the depth of the force of kindness, but also from their conviction that kindness should not be taken for granted.
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#16. Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations more than others.
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#17. A man can't talk of true happiness if he has never known true love - the trusting, selfless and unconditional love that I took for granted.
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#18. ...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process,
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#19. If 10 percent of the population were to take a consciously ethical outlook on life and act accordingly, the resulting change would be more significant than any change of government,
Peter Singer
#20. When somebody you love dies, a phase of life's innocence dies with that person, and a part of you dies as well.
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#21. If being a saint is complete devotion to a cause, bravery and altruism, then I think Mrs Sendlerowa fulfils all the conditions.I think about her the way you think about someone you owe your life to.
Irena Sendler
#23. Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.
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#24. In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.
Jane Addams
#25. Some honest people think it is better to know the ways of the devil without being evil.
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#26. It is easier for an ambitious friend to become an enemy than for an enemy to become a friend. It is even easier to make friends than you can find people to trust as friends.
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#27. Fear is a basic human instinct and an indicator of the gravity of a situation. It becomes an asset if it is effectively controlled. It becomes a weakness for a man if he lets it prevail over him.
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#28. He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.
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#29. We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth.
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#30. Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.
Shannon L. Alder
#31. Expose human ties for what they really are and you are most likely to find the worst forms of betrayal staring back at you.
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#32. Altruism is written in everlasting and resplendent character on the Cross of Christ, and it was at Calvary that the centre of life was shifted from selfishness to sacrifice.
Jon Weber
#33. We still need to give our best to life even if we do not understand the purpose of our existence on earth.
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#34. Whatever they say about it, but being altruistic is not so simple for everyone. Not to look and sound like despotism, altruism must be learnt, and it's a long way, which in fact begins from our egoism, for really, a human can't love others if he doesn't love himself first.
Lara Biyuts
#35. In dealing with others, man is inherently a slave to his preconceptions, to the stereotypes he became familiar with that made life easier for him to comprehend.
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#37. Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.
Erol Ozan
#38. Sometimes, our pride compels us to engage in costly wars when a true commitment to a compromising peace would have been the best course to pursue.
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#39. Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all sorts of signals as its individual self, choose to give up its life in aid of someone else?
Lewis Thomas
#40. Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion - may be the key to survival.
Carl Sagan
#41. In today's world, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of that disparity.
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#42. Judgments based on preconceptions make life simple for us to deal with since that means we safely shield ourselves behind barriers of preconception that helped us feel safe in whatever views or assumptions we are having.
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#43. So, you see; you have the soul of a missionary, the heart of a revolutionary and the mind of a reformer. But what are you to yourself and the family and friends who will always be there for you?
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#44. ... People who are the spices of this world are the natural souls with instincts and impulses that have not been pruned by evolution and civilization.
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#45. It was one thing to be fooled, and another thing to be taken for a fool all the time.
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#46. Some people live their memorable years fighting against their basic instincts only to succumb in the end to what was actually good for them.
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#47. ...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man's world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?
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#48. In your selflessness pursuit of things higher than yourself, you appear selfish or inconsiderate to those who truly love you and who have cared deeply about you from the first day you came into their lives.
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#49. Most people live lives that are full of mysteries, lives whose ultimate purpose we may never really understand. But for the sake of serenity, we must believe in life's nobleness.
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#51. The selfish and self-centered have a hard time being kind, even though you and I know that kindness is a source of relief to the soul.
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#53. I am deeply in love with the world and its contents. My heartaches when I see any suffering so kindness and altruism is my ultimate way of life.
Debasish Mridha
#54. ...only the dreamers of a dream are capable of translating their dreams into worthy practical endeavors that are devoid of haunting errors. After all, they are the ones who carefully observed the link between their dreams and reality; they are the ones who worked consciously to blend them into one.
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#55. We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.
Herman Melville
#56. When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity.
Wayne W. Dyer
#57. Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.
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#58. Huh! Mankind always comes up with ideas to make up for the follies of the status quo. But what happens if those ideas are inflexible and fail to respond to the changing times. They end up betraying the people who believed in them.
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#59. Hold onto your creativity, that idealism that is rooted in some degree of innocence and a firm belief in something finer than the things we already have.
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#60. Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole.
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#61. Friendship is that form of altruism that takes its strides faster than anything else does.
Deepak Rana
#62. True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success,
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#63. ...A canonical leader is someone whose exemplary rule might have appeared to be for the alleviation of the pains and miseries of a particular group, but which in reality is for the advancement of humanism...
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#64. We need the wisdom to accept the fact that this world abounds with issues we cannot solve; and we need to part ways with those people, ideas and things that are a vexation to the soul.
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#66. A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it.
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#67. I think preconceived ideas or prejudgments are meant to give us an edge whenever we are dealing with others we don't know or haven't made the effort to understand.
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#68. Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of virtues to flaws, of ability to incompetence, of progress to stagnation-and the subordinating of all life and of all values to the claims of anyone's suffering.
Ayn Rand
#69. Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
Brian Tracy
#70. Kindness is a source of relief to the soul of the giver, creating a sense of fortitude that is incomprehensible to those who do not know what kindness is all about.
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#71. We do things in life to make others happy. We make sacrifices because that feeling - the one I once thought was altruism, but have since learned is just love - it makes us feel good. We give, but it's never selfless.
Ginger Scott
#72. With true love, you can move mountains, make unusual sacrifices, live a life of deprivations and still be happy.
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#73. We have power as consumers. We can exercise that power all the time by not choosing to invest time, energy or funds to support the production of mass media images that do not reflect life-enhancing values, that undermine a love ethic.
Bell Hooks
#74. We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.
Deepak Chopra
#75. It is not something we often find out; but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary.
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#76. What is the purpose of achieving your dream if the people you had dreamed your achievements for are no longer there to reap the benefits?
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#77. I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
Kahlil Gibran
#78. Societies and people that come close to being happy are those that do well in narrowing the disparity between their desires and their needs, especially the material things of life.
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#79. ...A legendary leader distinguishes himself as someone who gets ahead of his people from an impasse and futile general consensus, and then finds new grounds that constitute the base from which a unique course of his people's destiny is charted...
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#80. The true leaders of our time, the legends of this world or the movers of the movers are the towering figures that are blessed with beautiful minds, receptive ears and directing voices. They are the ones we should emulate in life.
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#81. When we tend to be too hard on those we love, we erode the softness of our souls in the process, taking out the humanity within us that is the nucleus of our goodness, even if our actions are for their own sake.
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#82. Enthusiasm is the thing which makes the world go round. Without its driving power, nothing worth doing has ever been done. Love, friendship, religion, altruism, devotion to career or hobby-all these, and most of the other good things of life, are forms of enthusiasm.
Robert Haven Schauffler
#83. Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others ... To make that the highest test of virtue is to make suffering the most important part of life. Then man must wish to see others suffer in order that he may be virtuous. Such is the nature of altruism.
Ayn Rand
#84. Singers, actors or artists who touch on sorrow are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to their sorrows.
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#85. Altruism is the surest and most effective way to bring about genuine life satisfaction.
Dalai Lama XIV
#86. Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth the irrational.
Ayn Rand
#87. Man craves joy far more than anything else in life, but there is nothing as madly intoxicating as the feeling of joy that comes from the soul.
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#88. Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity without meaning to.
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#89. ...Bad leaders are known to destroy one, more or even all of the foundations of their people's way of life...
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#91. When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life
trust, love, mercy, and altruism
then we shall know that the kingdom of God is here.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#92. Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man's worst selfish instincts.
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#93. The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.
Peter Watts
#94. ...True classical dropouts in society are those who avoid difficult challenges and cling to the first opportunity that comes their way. They never test their talents. These latent talents will only help to produce the next cycle of dropouts...
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#95. In the world of today, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of all of those contradictions. That is how we ended up complicating our world.
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#96. ...the act of kindness is an unselfish act, it is medicine for your soul...
Travis Culliton
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