Altruistic Motives Quotes

I think that one of the things that Christianity really needs, and the church really needs, is credibility. People need to be able to trust us and they need to believe we really want to help them and that it's not just, I'm-doing-this-for-me type thing.

Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.

I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to build up, no enemies to punish-nothing to serve but my country.

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

By work alone, men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnani, Christ was a Bhakta, but the same goal was reached by both of them. Good motives, sincerity, and infinite love can conquer the world. One single soul possessed of these virtues can destroy the dark designs of millions of hypocrites and brutes.

Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense of duty, solidarity, loyalty, public-spiritedness, patriotism, and so on - that are sometimes even more important than self-seeking as the driver of our behaviors.

Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile.

I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they see them on the merits of the issues.

We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.

I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

You're trying to tell me that everything you've done is for a good cause. You think that all this killing is worth it because of the results. I'm not sure I agree. Lots of people work for charity; lots of people want to change the world. But they don't have to behave like you.

If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?

It's probably more fulfilling for me to be offering what I offer than it is for the people who receive it.

Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions.

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

It always amused me that there were people working for the good of altruism but also wanting a lot of credit for it. It's just oddly competitive and the environment and the people who decide to work at non-profits are just really funny to me.

If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain.

There seems to me nothing very bad about a nation's capital having good intentions - and when the intentions are magnificent, so much the better.