Sayings And Quotes On Volunteerism

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“One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.”
– Dick Gregory

“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.”
– Dolores Huerta

“Older, younger, anyone can help. We’ve learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every day. We’ve had constituents initiate legislation, lobby for it, organize meetings and events, and, of course, call, mail, e-mail and visit legislators to express their views. It’s really great to see how much difference that individuals can make.”
– Doris Day

“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.”
– Dr. Dorothy I. Height

“Your life and mine should be valued not by what we take… but by what we give.”
– Edgar Allen

“There are two ways of spreading light – to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
– Edith Wharton

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

“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 something that I can do.”
– Edmund Everett Hale

“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.”
– Edward Everett

“What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver.”
– Edward James Olmos

“Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.”
– Elizabeth Andrew

“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

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the aching, or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.”
– Emily Dickinson

“Help your sister’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

“Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain loving one another.”
– Erma Brombeck

“It is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live.”
– Eugene V. Debs

“Yes, I am my brother’s keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death.”
– Eugene V. Debs

“I find that the critics of voluntary service are all too often those who are prepared to accept such services when they require them but deride them with cynicism and scepticism when they see others helping and being helped.”
– Eva Hart

“Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Volunteers are paid in six figures… S-M-I-L-E-S.”
– Gayla LeMaire

“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”
– George Eliot

“How beautiful a day can be
When kindness touches it!”
– George Elliston

“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.”
– George Romney

“Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.”
– Gerald Jampolsky

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
– Gibran Kahlil Gibran

“He who does nothing for others does nothing for himself.”
– Goethe

“The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.”
– Gordon B. Hinckley

“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.”
– Harriet Naylor

“Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.”
– Harry Chapin

“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.”
– Helen Dyer

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