Volunteer Quotes - Page 15

• 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, Helping Others, Light

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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, Helping Others

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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

  Helping Others, Men, Community

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• Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

  Alice Walker

  Compassion, Helping Others, Pay

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• In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.

  Booker T. Washington

  Helping Others, Helping, Proportion

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “Character Building”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Helping Others, Giving, Sick

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• When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Community, Brave, Majority

  "A Plea for Captain John Brown" (1859)

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• And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time

  Franklin P. Adams

  Rhyme, Glad, Prose

  Franklin Pierce Adams, “Maud Muller Mutatur”

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• Silence equals nonexistence. If I don't raise my voice, it's like I never existed.

  Margaret Cho

  Voice, Silence, Raises

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• At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

  Jack Kornfield

  Love, Inspirational, Death

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• Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.

  Cary Grant

  Kindness, Destiny, Giving

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• As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.

  William Shakespeare

  Arrows, Purpose, Way

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Shakespeare: A Book of Quotations”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement.

  Max Lucado

  Motivation, Inspiration, Movement

  Max Lucado (2015). “On the Anvil”, p.120, NavPress

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• If you want to change the world, be that change.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Want, Philanthropy

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• Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.

  Epictetus

  Character, Pay The Price, Giving

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• When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.

  Bel Kaufman

  Kindness, Heart, Giving

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• Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend. It could be you. You never know when a little love, a little support will plant a small seed of hope.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Teacher, Children, Believe

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• In my career, I learned that giving your services for free gives you a good return on your investment, not just financially but morally. It supplements your personal integrity.

  Stevie Wonder

  Integrity, Careers, Giving

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• Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow. I have no kindness for you, and know you have as little for me. I will not, therefore, take any pains upon your account . . . Here then I leave you to labor alone; you treat me in the same manner. The seasons change, and both of us lose our harvests for want of mutual confidence and security.

  David Hume

  Pain, Kindness, Community

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• If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

  Anita Roddick

  Women, Believe, Differences

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• We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep us together to make this a better country - to reach down and back to touch every young person in need!

  Colin Powell

  Country, Community, Together

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• It's not how high we jump off our feet in church, it's what we do with them when we hit the ground!

  Tom Ridge

  Feet, Church

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• Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Felt, Wounds

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.318, Penguin

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• There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

  Walter Reuther

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Helping Others

  Walter Reuther (1961). “Selected Papers”, New York : Macmillan

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• The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.

  Robert Breault

  Inspiration, Community, Making A Difference

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