Social Work Quotes

• But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

  Bulent Ecevit

  Army, Building Up, Leave Me Alone

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• I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.

  Roger Nash Baldwin

  Helping Others, Years, Unitarian Church

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• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Freedom, Business

  "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

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• To get rid of greed, you should try to do some sort of a collective social work.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sweet, Father, Selfish

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• There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.

  James D. Watson

  Physics, Social, Science Physics

  "Lifelines". Book by Steven Rose, 1997.

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• Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

  The Lorax (1971)

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• Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent.

  John Mott

  Christianity, Evangelism, Social

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• Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption. All the desolation of the poor people, not only their material poverty, but their spiritual destitution, must be redeemed. And we must share it, for only by being one with them can we redeem them by bringing God into their lives and bringing them to God.

  Mother Teresa

  Spiritual, Jesus, People

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• The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights.

  Adolf Hitler

  Rights, Purpose, Favour

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• I had begun what I thought might be a career in social work. I was married and deeply involved in the anti-war movement. I thought I'd go about saving the world one person at a time. I worked with kids, teenagers mostly, in neighborhood centers, on the streets, and eventually in a drop-in center.

  John Dufresne

  War, Teenager, Kids

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma.

  Chath Piersath

  Overcoming Addiction, People, Community

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• With sports and games, you have fun despite working very hard, even despite failing repeatedly. Even the fun of a night out, you have to get somewhere and do all the conversational, social work of being out. There's effort involved. But then when you're finished, you can conclude, "Actually there was something gratifying about the hardship that I just encountered." That discovery of novelty is where the molten core of fun is.

  Ian Bogost

  Sports, Fun, Night

  Source: app.longform.org

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• The core of the film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] is that relationship. Whether they're getting on or whether they're not. If that relationship works, then everything else works as well. And you kind of almost, sort of, gives into a realm of something like New Zealand magic realism... There is no world in which social work is actually pursues some kid into the woods in this manner.

  Sam Neill

  Kids, Magic Realism, Giving

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Politics is social work with power.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Philanthropy, Social

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• Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Suffering, Redemption

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• We try to use our experiences as leverage for our social work, to help children to get education because that is the way to get a special life.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Children, Motivation, Special

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• I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

  Carl Rakosi

  Poet, Social, Undoing

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• All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.

  John Ralston Saul

  Acceptance, Years, Taught Us

  John Ralston Saul (1997). “Reflections of a Siamese twin: Canada at the end of the twentieth century”, Viking Adult

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• The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession.

  Andy Sawford

  Government, People, Initiative

  "How Whitehall betrayed social workers" by Andy Sawford, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.

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

  Edmund Burke

  Life, Courage, Time

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• The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Friendship, Success

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• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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• Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

  Charles Kuralt

  Retirement, School, Trying

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• Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

  Jane Addams

  Attitude, Army, Men

  Jane Addams (2006). “Jane Addams's Essays and Speeches on Peace”, p.303, A&C Black

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