Volunteerism Quotes - Page 5

• I think the spirit of America, one American wanting to make another American's life better, or internationally our desire to see countries do better, or people in countries do better, coming from this concept of volunteerism is a very valid and important part of our internal being.

  George H. W. Bush

  Country, Thinking, America

  "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 4, 2007.

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• 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

  Inspiring, Tired, Helping Others

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.65, Harmony

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• A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.

  Unknown

  Fathers Day, Father Son, Fatherhood

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• 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

  Caring, Helping Others, Government

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• I've always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Helping Others, Volunteer, Solution To A Problem

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• 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

  Helping Others, Volunteer, Invisible

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• 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

  Helping, Cynicism, Accepting

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• I think volunteerism in America generally is what makes America so special.

  Brian Roberts

  Thinking, Special

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

  Pablo Casals

  Motivational, Children, Helping Others

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• 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

  Helping Others, People, Volunteer

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• I believe that to meet the challenge of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. We must all learn to work not just for our own self, family, or nation but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace, the equitable use of natural resources, and through concern for future generations, the proper care of the environment.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Responsibility, Helping Others

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• If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.

  Kofi Annan

  Helping Others, Volunteer, Poverty

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• 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

  Helping Others, Volunteer, Done

  "Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches". Book edited by Stephen Marion Reynolds and Bruce Rogers, 1908.

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• If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?

  Sheryl Crow

  Kindness, Helping Others, Compassion

  "On Deception, Spin, and Losing Our Way" by Sheryl Crow, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2007.

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• 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.

  Ivy Baker Priest

  Thinking, Ivy, People

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• 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

  Helping Others, Volunteer, Done

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• We are all like one-winged angels. It is only when we help each other that we can fly.

  Luciano De Crescenzo

  Angel, Helping Others, Volunteer

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• The past year's natural disasters have highlighted the invaluable contributions of volunteers in our communities. They have volunteered their time, energy and skills to save lives and to rebuild communities. In this they joined countless people around the world who volunteer every day in response to 'silent crises'. These often unsung heroes understand all too well that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis.

  Kofi Annan

  Hero, Helping Others, Past

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• 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

  Life, Relationship, Helping Others

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• We have to do what we can to help wherever and whenever it is possible for us to help.

  Jackie Chan

  Helping Others, Volunteer, Helping

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• 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.

  Francis of Assisi

  Courage, Heart, Sacrifice

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• 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.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Struggle, Responsibility, Volunteer

  David Halberstam, Marian Wright Edelman, Sadako N. Ogata (1991). “Japan & the U.S.: where are we today?”

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• 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

  Kindness, Helping Others, Compassion

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• Go out and do something for somebody. Go out and give something to somebody. It will take you away from yourself and make you happy.

  Joseph Jefferson

  Helping Others, Volunteer, Giving

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• No man can become rich without himself enriching others

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Men, Rich

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