Cesar Chavez Quotes

Have you known what it is to give your meal to another and to go without yourself? It gives a happiness that no dinner eaten by yourself can give. Have you known what it is to give your coat to another and do without it yourself? It gives a joy that the satisfaction of your own wants cannot give you.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

Feel the needs of others more than your own.

We love most those who we serve most.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.

Helping someone is what life is all about.

Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.

I do this because it pleases me, and there is nothing I would not do so as human effort goes, to advance any movement designed to reach and rescue perishing humanity. I have a heart for others and that is why I am in this work. When I see suffering about me, I myself suffer, and so when I put forth my efforts to relieve others, I am simply working for myself. I do not consider that I have made any sacrifice whatever; no man does unless he violates his conscience

The secret to greatness is in serving everyone else.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.

You don't need a reason to help people.

The only way to save yourself is to endeavor to save others.

We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity to our fellow beings.

Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life...all of our life.

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.

Our rule is the works of mercy... It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.

So often our sisters comfort others when their own needs are greater than those being comforted. That quality is like the generosity of Jesus on the cross. Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity!

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.