Volunteerism Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.

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.

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!

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.

Now as a former welfare recipient, I don't have a problem with expecting people to work to earn money. But where I come from we call that a job, not volunteerism.

I believe that to meet the challenge of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. We must all learn to work not just for our own self, family, or nation but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace, the equitable use of natural resources, and through concern for future generations, the proper care of the environment.

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.

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?

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

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

The past year's natural disasters have highlighted the invaluable contributions of volunteers in our communities. They have volunteered their time, energy and skills to save lives and to rebuild communities. In this they joined countless people around the world who volunteer every day in response to 'silent crises'. These often unsung heroes understand all too well that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis.

I find that the critics of voluntary service are all too often those who are prepared to accept such services when they require them but deride them with cynicism and scepticism when they see others helping and being helped.

If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

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

My involvement with UNICEF is particularly important to me because it is UNICEF that introduced me to volunteerism, thereby helping me to set my own personal standard of contributing my time and giving back to others. Working on behalf of UNICEF's lifesaving efforts is one of my most valued roles.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

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.

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

Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.

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

Spread your love everywhere you go.

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.

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

Service is the rent we pay for living.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

I am only one, But still I am one.

You cannot do a kindness too soon.

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

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

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.

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

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.

The harder I work the more I live.

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

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.

Let us remember the large numbers of citizens who, day in and day out, through acts of volunteerism large and small, bring hope to so many of the world's disadvantaged. Let us ensure that this wonderful resource, available in abundance to every nation, is recognized and supported as it works towards a more prosperous and peaceful world.

Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.

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.