Sayings And Quotes On Volunteerism

by allinspiration.com

“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.”
– Marie Curie

“Life‘s most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.”
– Maya Angelou

“Volunteers are not servants. Volunteers are partners working together for improving America’s future.”
– Mayor Richard Daly

“A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity.”
– Mollie Marti

“Allow the way to your great work to be guided by your service to others.”
– Mollie Marti

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.”
– Muhammad Ali

“You must work – we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.”
– Pablo Casals

“The measure of a life is not its duration, but its donation.”
– Peter Marshall

“Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.”
– Quincy Jones

“The world is a giant community now. This excuse of distance, time, doesn’t work…We’re all so connected. We can’t spend every second of our lives worrying about another family miles away but we somehow have to factor it in where we can.”
– Ralph Fiennes

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Here’s to all volunteers, those dedicated people who believe in all work and no pay.”
– Robert Orben

“Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.”
– Rosalynn Carter

“There is clearly much left to be done, and whatever else we are going to do, we had better get on with it.”
– Rosalynn Carter

“Whatever community organization, whether it’s a women’s organization, or fighting for racial justice, you will get satisfaction out of doing something to give back to the community that you never get in any other way.”
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon.”
– Saint Francis of Assisi

“It is in giving oneself that one receives.”
– Saint Francis of Assisi

“Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received – only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.”
– Saint Francis of Assisi

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

“You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man.”
– Seth Parker

“In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.”
– Sheldon Kopp

“Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they’re priceless.”
– Sherry Anderson

“If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?”
– Sheryl Crow

“Service is the rent you pay for room on this earth.”
– Shirley Chisholm

“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.”
– Stephen Grellet

“Volunteering is so pervasive it’s invisible. We take for granted all the things that have been pioneered by concerned, active volunteers.”
– Susan J. Ellis

“Paul Revere earned his living as a silversmith. But what do we remember him for? His volunteer work. All activism is volunteering in that it’s done above and beyond earning a living and deals with what people really care passionately about. Remember, no one gets paid to rebel. All revolutions start with volunteers.”
– Susan J. Ellis

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