Helping Others Quotes - Page 27

• 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

  Fighting, Organization, Volunteer

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• Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Jobs, Joy, Nine

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• If you want to improve your world, then focus your attention on helping others.

  John C. Maxwell

  Focus, Attention, World

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• Let us remember the large numbers of citizens who, day in and day out, through acts of volunteerism large and small, bring hope to so many of the world's disadvantaged. Let us ensure that this wonderful resource, available in abundance to every nation, is recognized and supported as it works towards a more prosperous and peaceful world.

  Kofi Annan

  Numbers, Volunteer, Peaceful

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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, Past, Years

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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

  Volunteer, Done, Common

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

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• There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

  William James

  Volunteer, Unconditional, Commandments

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.209, Courier Corporation

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• I do believe there is enormous possibility to change this world.

  Nicole Kidman

  Believe, Volunteer, World

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• My involvement with UNICEF is particularly important to me because it is UNICEF that introduced me to volunteerism, thereby helping me to set my own personal standard of contributing my time and giving back to others. Working on behalf of UNICEF's lifesaving efforts is one of my most valued roles.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Time, Children, Volunteer

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• 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.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Light, Giving

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• 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

  Daughter, Baby, Thinking

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• 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

  Men, Volunteer, Community

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• 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

  Giving, Sick, Volunteer

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• It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, People, Trying

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• The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.

  Charles William Eliot

  Men, Ties Of Love, Circles

  Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”

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• The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Competition, Trying, Littles

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• When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Regret, Wish, Way

  Sakyong Mipham (2005). “Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life”, p.64, Harmony

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• There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

  Seneca the Younger

  Delight, Helping

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• Suffering attracts fixers the way road-kills attract vultures.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Suffering, Way, Fixers

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• When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us.

  Frederick Buechner

  Suffering, Persons, God's Love

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• A scar is a wound that has healed. We need to bring our wounds to Jesus, let Him heal them, and use our scars for Jesus. Our scars may be our greatest ministry.

  Adrian Rogers

  Jesus, Needs, Ministry

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• Trials make more room for consolation. There is nothing that makes a man have a big heart like a great trial. I always find that little, miserable people, whose hearts are about the size of a grain of mustard seed, never have had much to try them. I have found that those people who have no sympathy for their fellows — who never weep for the sorrows of others — very seldom have had any woes of their own. Great hearts can only be made by great troubles.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Men, People

  "Selected Works".

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• In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Giving, Doe, Courses

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “God's Guidance: Finding His Will for Your Life”, p.58, Revell

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• Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims....and I just started to cry. I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But - how can I put this? I'm almost......drawn to them.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Running, Night, People

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• Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Responsibility, Would Be, World

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