Volunteer Quotes

• It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

  Tom Brokaw

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Motivation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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  What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

  Albert Pike

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Pike (1899). “Ex Corde Locutiones...: Words from the Heart Spoken of His Dead Brethren...”

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• Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Helping Others, Greatness

  "The Drum Major Instinct". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1968.

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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

  Happiness, Helping Others, People

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• In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Heart

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Never underestimate your ability to make someone else's life better - even if you never know it.

  Greg Louganis

  Underestimate, Ability, Human Potential

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• Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.

  Sherry Anderson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Appreciation

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  We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

  Muhammad Ali

  Basketball, Kindness, Fighting

  Twitter post from May 26, 2010

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  Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

  George Eliot

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  "The New Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern". Book compiled by Tryon Edwards et al., 1960.

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• The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

  Francis of Assisi

  Deeds, May, Today

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• Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Uplifting, Work, Teaching

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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  Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

  Alexander Pope

  Helping Others, Woe Is Me, Faults

  'The Universal Prayer' (1738)

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• You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations". Book by William S. Walsh, 1951.

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• He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

  Confucius

  Business, Team Building, Community Service

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• We pass through this world but once.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Kindness, Helping Others, Giving

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.30, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.231, Princeton University Press

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• Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• 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

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

  Gillian Anderson

  Helping Others, Feelings, Empowerment

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• Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

  Booker T. Washington

  Art, Caring, Want

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