- How
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Altruistic Quotes
Where selflessness and self-interest meet and clash.
This page draws a clear line between selfish and altruistic concern, defining each by whose good a person is predominantly focused on pursuing. Explore related sayings under Back quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Humanitarian
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.
- Good
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.
- Good
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very much a believer in the character always heading for something or after something. But that doesn't always have to be a selfish thing - it could be an altruistic thing as well. You can't play good; you can't play evil. But you have to think: what does this person want to happen in this situation?
- Nobody
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.
- Children
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The government must adopt a rights-based approach that speaks to the needs and aspirations of surrogate mothers, children born out of surrogacy, and all individuals who want access to altruistic surrogacy services.
- Nature
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves.
- Creative
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.
- Men
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
- Appalled
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization, I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'
- Children
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When the mortgage giant Fannie Mae recruited Daniel H. Mudd, he told a friend he wanted to work for an altruistic business. Already a decorated marine and a successful executive, he wanted to be a role model to his four children - just as his father, the television journalist Roger Mudd, had been to him.
- Gratitude
- |
- Nov 07, 2020