QUOTES
For Volunteers

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"I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy, I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy. "
-- Rabindranath Tagore

 

* The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
-- Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

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.
-- Mother Teresa

* "It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing."
-- Mother Teresa

 

Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings.
-- Lao tzu (570-490 BC)

Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
-- Danny Thomas

 
* I want a different world. One where I don’t wake up thinking I’m so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don’t want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.
-- Emma Thompson

* Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can to serve each other. There is no use in one man, or one nation, to try to do or be everything. It is a good thing to be dependent on each other for something, it makes us civil and peaceable.
-- Sojourner Truth (c. 1797­1883)

* "Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society."
-- Kathleen Turner

You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.
-- Kathleen Turner

"Give help rather than advice."
-- Luc de Vauvenargues

 

* The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
-- Lech Walesa

* Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
-- Alice Walker

* In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
-- Booker T. Washington

* "My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world."
-- Faye Wattleton

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.
-- John Wesley

 

* "None of us alone can save the nation or world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so."
-- Cornell West

 

"With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see."
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

* 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.
-- Marianne Williamson

"As we give of our time, talents and resources to tend the needs of the sick, offer food to the hungry and teach the dependent to stand on their own, we enrich ourselves spiritually beyond our ability to comprehend."
-- Joseph B. Wirthlin (1924-)

"Little kindnesses...will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways."
--Zadik

Quotes For Volunteers

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Volunteer Day - December 5

MLK Day of Service - 3rd Monday in January

 

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