Social Work Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

  Mother Teresa

  Self Esteem, Helping Others, Numbers

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• Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Compassion, Rights, Government

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trying, Helping, Help Yourself

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• Politics is social work with power.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Philanthropy, Social

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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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• 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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• Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  "Women of Faith and Spirit: Their Words & Thoughts". Book edited by Dayna Beilenson and Mary Alice Warner, p. 42, 1987.

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• If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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• My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work?

  Georgette Heyer

  Girl, Lazy, Nonsense

  Georgette Heyer (2010). “They Found Him Dead”, p.209, Random House

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• How can one be compassionate if you belong to any religion, follow any guru, believe in something, believe in your scriptures, and so on, attached to a conclusion? When you accept your guru, you have come to a conclusion, or when you strongly believe in god or in a saviour, this or that, can there be compassion? You may do social work, help the poor out of pity, out of sympathy, out of charity, but is all that love and compassion?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Believe, Compassion, Charity

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• I think kids have got to learn how to work with what's happening, work with social, work with everything. To complain about how things aren't the way they used to be.

  Diplo

  Kids, Thinking, Complaining

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• ...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor--they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Memories, Compassion, Curves

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• I work hard in social work, public relations, and raising the Grimaldi heirs.

  Grace Kelly

  Work, Heirs, Royalty

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• Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

  Jon Porter

  Crush, Teaching, School

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• The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.

  Ivan Illich

  Military, Race, Productive Work

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”

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