Richard Dawkins Quotes

Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.

To set the cause above renown.

Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

Nobody else in the world can do what we can do. And nobody else is willing to do it for altruistic reasons. I mean, we don't go into places like Iraq to grab their oil or colonize their country. We go there to deliver, as George W. Bush said, the blessings of liberty.

I've done things, sometimes foolishly misguided, because I wanted to give back to the fans.

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

Our generosity is measured not by what we give but by what we keep.

If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.

Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you.

You'll never get what you really want. All you can do is give what you really want!

Trees bear fruits only to be eaten by others; the fields grown grains, but they are consumed by the world. Cows give milk, but she doesn't drink it herself - that is left to others. Clouds send rain only to quench the parched earth. In such giving, there is little space for selfishness.

Giving up something personal to the public, you are surrendering something.

Who among you will love something more than you love yourself, all right?

The most important thing is you have to want to do something for somebody other than yourself.

We are at our best when we give the ultimate sacrifice of putting other people, putting the country, putting our communities ahead of ourselves.

Heroes are people who think more of others than themselves. This is not to say that they don't think of themselves. They do. They certainly do. But they think of others more.

I don't want my life to just be about me.

I'm no saint, and I don't want to come across like one, but there is not a day that goes by that I'm not doing something for someone else with a very large chunk of my time.

I'm all about assists; I'm not really greedy.

Love is not selfish. Love is something else.

If you do a good deed, don't expect anything back - the other person can still be a complete git.

If something's really selfless, then there's really no value in it for you... there's only value in it for the world.