Volunteerism Quotes - Page 4

• Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

  William Feather

  Life, Thank You, Appreciation

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

  Confucius

  Business, Volunteer, Team Building

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• Service is the rent we pay for living.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Helping Others, Pay, Serving Others

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.15, Beacon Press

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• Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.

  George H. W. Bush

  Country, Sacrifice, Simple

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• If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Helping Others, Remember You, Remembers You

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• If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together.

  Lilla Watson

  Work, Volunteer, Community

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• One person can make a difference.

  Raoul Wallenberg

  Bullying, Differences, Volunteer

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• There is no time like the present.

  Georgia Byng

  Helping Others, Making A Difference, Giving Help

  Georgia Byng (2009). “Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time-Travel Adventure”, p.113, Pan Macmillan

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• Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.

  Edward de Bono

  Perseverance, Time, Helping Others

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• You cannot do a kindness too soon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Karma, Thankful, Appreciation

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• Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Work

  Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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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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• I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Positive Thinking, Kwanzaa, True Joy

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• Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Peace, Money

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

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• Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Motivation, Helping Others, Community

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• If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever.

  Kofi Annan

  Helping Others, Thinking, Volunteer

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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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• Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Happiness, Happy, Running

  James Freeman Clarke (1877). “The hour which cometh, and now is: sermons”

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• I believe we are put on this earth to be of service. It's how I find meaning in my life. And it's fun!

  Dana Delany

  Fun, Believe, Helping Others

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• Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Caring, Helping Others, Our World

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• Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?

  Eugene V. Debs

  Brother, Children, Helping Others

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

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• Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?

  John Legend

  Helping Others, Volunteer, Empathy

  "John Legend Shows How Easy Charity Can Be With Poverty Action Tour". Interview with Jayson Rodriguez, www.mtv.com. January 29, 2008.

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• How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.

  James Cash Penney

  Art, Children, Lying

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