Volunteerism Quotes - Page 2

• The debt that each generation owes to the past, it must pay to the future.

  Abigail Scott Duniway

  Helping Others, Past, Volunteer

  "Westward the Women". Book by Nancy Wilson Ross, Mar 15, 2016.

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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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• I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Kwanzaa, True Joy, Privilege And Responsibility

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• Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Helping Others, Volunteer, Needs

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• Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  College, Helping Others, Greatness

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• Volunteerism is vital in all times; it keeps our communities alive...and will make a difference in the lives of those who will come after us.

  Clifton Taulbert

  Differences, Community, Making A Difference

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• The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.

  Graham Collier

  Beautiful, Character, Volunteer

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• If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope.

  Barack Obama

  Motivational, Determination, Helping Others

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• The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Here's to all volunteers, those dedicated people who believe in all work and no pay.

  Robert Orben

  Believe, People, Volunteer

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• What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

  Aristotle

  Life, Helping Others, Essence

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• No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "Our Mutual Friend". Book by harles Dickens, 1865.

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  I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• 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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• 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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• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

  Horace Mann

  Compassion, Helping Others, Help And Support

  "Thoughts" by Jessie K. Freeman and Sarah S. B. Yule, (p. 83), 1901.

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• In American Society today, we need to have volunteerism. I truly believe that it is the glue that will hold us together and it will be the energy that will take us into the 21st century.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Believe, Helping Others, Volunteer

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  There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

  Edith Wharton

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

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• When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Kindness, Helping Others, Generosity

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• Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Wisdom, Appreciation, Kindness

  "Kindness Can Open Hearts and Unexpected Opportunities" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2015.

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• Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Children, Elderly, Dawn

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