Quotes About Volunteering

16 Jun, 2011Blog, Featured, Volunteer Advice, Volunteering

Quotes about volunteering and volunteers.

“It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that noone can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”

–Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.”

–Cary Grant

“The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

–Ghandi

‘No joy can equal the joy serving others.’ -Sai Baba

“When you give to others, you speak a silent but audible thank you. Appreciation for others and ourselves is life and spirit for each and every one of us.”

“How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.”

–Anne Frank

“If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.”

–Whoopi Goldberg

“When you open your heart to giving, angels fly to your door.”

A wise lady once told me that when you find your ideal job, you will do it for less than they pay you and when you find your calling you will do it for free. This is my ideal job. I hope you find yours.”

–Martin Tichenor

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted”

–Aesop

“Volunteers are paid in six figures… S-M-I-L-E-S”

–Gayla LeMaire

“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.”

–Sally Koch

“I feel that we all must live, so that when we are gone, everyone will miss the work we did, but someone has learned by watching us, how to take up the banner and go forward. ”

“Help one another; there’s no time like the present and no present like the time.”

–James Durst

“Even if it’s a little thing, do something for those who have need of a man’s help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For, remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.”

–Albert Schweitzer

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor touched…but felt in the heart.”

–Helen Keller

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is ‘What are you doing for others?’ ”

–Rev. Martin Luther King

“When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it’s time to turn out the lights.”

–George Burns

“If you want to change the world, be that change.”

–Ghandi

“It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing.”

–Mother Theresa

“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own” – Abraham Lincoln

“A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.”

- Chinese proverb

“Help your brother’s boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side.” Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.” – Eric Hoffer

“If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.”

- Audrey Hepburn

“A candle loses nothing of its light when lighting another.”

–Kahlil Gibran

“Volunteers don’t necessarily have the time, but they have the heart.” –Anonymous

“I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced that they are about to change the world. I am more awed by … those who … struggle to make one small difference after another.” –Ellen Goodman

“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.”

“We can’t do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about its width and depth.” –Evan Esar

“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. ” –Mother Theresa

“Having a big heart has nothing to do with how big your bank account is. Everyone has something to give”.

–Barbara Bush

“I cannot know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know is that the truly happy among you will be those who have learned to serve.”

–Albert Schweitzer

“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.”

–Martin Luther King, Jr.

“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

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”

– Edmond Burke

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?”

–Martin Luther King Jr.

“May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.”

–Thomas Jefferson