Volunteerism Quotes
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We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to humanity. (Quote by - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it. (Quote by - Marianne Williamson)
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others. (Quote by - Ghandi)
Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. (Quote by - Booker T. Washington)
Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence. (Quote by - Aristotle)
The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town. (Quote by - Collier Graham)
When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else, and it'll become like a wildfire. (Quote by - Whoopi Goldberg)
The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life. the children; those who are in the twilight of life. the elderly; and those who are in the shadow of life. the sick, the needy and the handicapped. (Quote by - Hubert Humphrey)
Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop. (Quote by - Dr. Dorothy I)
Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world's problems. It might be one of us. With your help, we can build a more hopeful world. (Quote by - Marianne Larned)
Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)
In American society today, we need to have volunteerism. I truly believe that it is the glue that will hold us together and it will be the energy that will take us into the 21st Century. (Quote by - Sen. Barbara Mikulski)
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. (Quote by - Japanese Proverb)
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. (Quote by - Edmund Everett Hale)
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind. (Quote by - Henri Frederick Amiel)
Kindness is more important than wisdom and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. (Quote by - Theodore Isaac Rubin)
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on . . . The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)
There is no better exercise for your heart, Than reaching down and helping to lift someone up. (Quote by - Bernard Meltzer)
We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed. (Quote by - Ivy Baker Priest)
Never doubt that a small group of commited people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)
Our nation will succeed or fail to the degree that all of us citizens and businesses alike are active participants in building strong, sustainable and enriching communities. (Quote by - Arnold Hiatt)
Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire--oh, no--love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living Yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest. (Quote by - Henry Van Dyke)
The Winds of change shall not discourage the volunteer. (Quote by - Lorna Wilson)
Everyone can be great because anyone can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't even have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve... You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love... (Quote by - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. (Quote by - Kahil Gibran)
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. We must find each other. (Quote by - Mother Theresa)
Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
A civilization flourishes when people plant trees under which they will never sit. (Quote by - Greek Proverb)
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have. (Quote by - Leonard Nimoy)
Volunteering creates a national character in which the community and the nation take on a spirit of compassion, comradeship and confidence. (Quote by - Brian O'Connell)
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. (Quote by - Booker T. Washington)
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Giving kids clothes and food is one thing but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important, and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people. (Quote by - Dolores Huerta)
Volunteerism is the voice of the people put into action. These actions shape and mold the present into a future of which we can all be proud. (Quote by - Helen Dyer)
Service to others is the payment you make for your space here on earth. (Quote by - Mohammed Ali)
The heart of a volunteer is not measured in size, but by the depth of the commitment to make a difference in the lives of others. (Quote by - DeAnn Hollis)
To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)
We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for someone else. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart. (Quote by - Elizabeth Andrew)
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. (Quote by - Leo Buscaglia)
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. (Quote by - George Washington Carver)
We can do anything we want, if we stick to it long enough. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Caring is a reflex... You live, you help. (Quote by - Ram Dass)
Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds. (Quote by - President Bill Clinton)
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. Those among you who will be truly happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. (Quote by - Dr. Albert Schweitzer)
You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
The magnitude of our social problems will require that all citizens and institutions make a commitment to volunteering as a way of life and as a primary opportunity to create needed change. (Quote by - George Romney)
Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)
A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for someone who might be thirsty. (Quote by - G. Donald Gale)
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and help them become what they are capable of being. (Quote by - Goethe)
Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed. (Quote by - Gerald Jampolsky)
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service. (Quote by - Bill Clinton )
I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. We can do no great things, only small things with great love. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)
Volunteering can be an exciting, growing, enjoyable experience. It is truly gratifying to serve a cause, practice one's ideals, work with people, solve problems, see benefits, and know one had a hand in them. (Quote by - Harriet Naylor)
There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through... sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)
Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides. (Quote by - George Bush)
I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the privilege and responsibility of sharing with others less fortunate; and that service is the rent each of us pays for living, the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals. (Quote by - Marian Wright Edelman)
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. (Quote by - Aesop)
I have been the recipient of love and service, therefore I can love and serve. There is great satisfaction in service to others, in seeing people and their conditions change. (Quote by - Clarence E. Hodges)
How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving. (Quote by - James Cash Penny)
If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt...It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics. (Quote by - Gurdjieff)
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son. (Quote by - Talmud)
