Volunteerism Quotes - Page 3

• There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.

  Mother Teresa

  Teamwork, Volunteer, Suffering

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• You only need a heart full of grace

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Greatness, Helping Others

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.222, Beacon Press

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• When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Quoted in Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone (1972)

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• I am only one,
  But still I am one.

  Helen Keller

  Responsibility, Volunteer, Solitude

  "The Book of Good Cheer : A Little Bundle of Cheery Thoughts‎" by Edwin Osgood Grover, (p. 28), 1909.

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• I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

  Edward Everett

  Life, Responsibility, Oneness

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• One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Generosity

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• What are you doing for others?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Helping Others, Volunteer

  Jim Haskins, James Haskins, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1992). “I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Millbrook Pr

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• When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.

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• The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.

  Barack Obama

  Determination, Powerful, Helping Others

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• …Spread your love everywhere you go.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Brother, Helping Others, Volunteer

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• Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Kindness, Haste, Be Kind

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• Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Kindness, Heart, Dark

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• To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Offering, Volunteer

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.

  Aristotle

  Excellence, Lines, Talent

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• Though government has an important role to play in meeting the many challenges that remain before us, we are coming to understand that no organization, including government, will fully succeed without the active participation of each of us. Volunteers are vital to enabling this country to live up to the true promise of its heritage

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Government, Play

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• Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Volunteer, Evil, Example

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• Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Appreciation, Responsibility, Helping Others

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• Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Inspirational, Mean

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• To the wrongs that need resistance,
  To the right that needs assistance,
  To the future in the distance,
  Give yourselves.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Honesty, Distance, Integrity

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• Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.

  Dolores Huerta

  Kids, Army, Clothes

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• One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Bullying, Morning

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• Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Happy

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• We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Success, Wisdom, Careers

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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