Quotes on Volunteering
(Reflections)
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The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.
--Ethel Percy Andrus
Submitted on 21 April by Lindsey Garner
In order to motivate others, you must first become a source of motivation by yourself. It simply means that if you want to get anything done through others, you must first do it yourself.
--
Hazrat Ilyas Attar Qadri
Submitted on 15 March 2008 by Muhammad Umer Attari
If just one person believes in you
Deep enough and strong enough
Believes in you hard enough and long enough
Before you knew it, someone else would think "If he can do it, I can do it"
Making it two.
Two whole people who believe in you.
And maybe even you can believe in you too.
--Robin and the Muppet Gang, from "It's Not Easy Being Green and Other Things to Consider"
Submitted on February 15, 2008 by April
When you volunteer it means you give yourself without any regression, without condition, but with full devotion...
Submitted on February 15, 2008 by Faith Tomaquin
What the mind of a Man can conceive and believe, he can achieve.
Submitted on February 15, 2008 by Albert Kwansa-Adjei
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and help them become what they are capable of being.
--Goethe
Submitted on February 15, 2008 by Elizabeth Ellis
Volunteers are seldom paid; not because they are worthless, but because they are PRICELESS!
--author unknown
Submitted on February 20, 2008 by Jana Baker
Someone asked the anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-1978), "What is the first sign you look for, to tell you of an ancient civilization?" The interviewer had in mind a tool or article of clothing. Ms. Mead surprised him by answering, a "healed femur". When someone breaks a femur, they can't survive to hunt, fish or escape enemies unless they have help from someone else. Thus, a healed femur indicates that someone else helped that person, rather than abandoning them and saving themselves. Isn't that what we in philanthropy are all about? Healing femurs of one sort or another?
Submitted on 8 November 2007 by Leslie Paige
There are volunteering quotations on the following
websites that I love getting ideas from:
Submitted on 30 May 2007 by Laura Dilts
Volunteering is not a
choice, it's a responsibility.
Submitted
on 17 April 2007 by Ashley E. Hyder
Never doubt
that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed,
it is the only thing that ever has.
--Margaret Mead
Submitted on 2 February 2007 by Maureen Stenquist
Help yourself.
Volunteer.
So what's holding you back? Volunteer today.
Don't just stand there. Volunteer.
Do the right thing. Volunteer.
Submitted on 12 July 2006 by Ahmed Amin
When we honestly
ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most
to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much
advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain
and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who
can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can
stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate
not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality
of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
--Henri Nouwen
Submitted on 16 January 2006 by Mercy Mission
Kenya
Silence equals
nonexistence. If I don't raise my voice, it's like I never existed.
--Margaret Cho, Comedienne Revolution
Submitted on 4 February 2005 by Jennifer
Smerud
Do all you can
with what you have, in the time you have, in the place you are.
--Nkosi Johnson, a Zulu boy, born into dire poverty while also being
infected with AIDS, who died at the age of 12. Found in Jim
Wooten's new book, "We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's
Courage and a Mother's Love."
Submitted on 4 December 2004 by Ed Madara, Director,
American Self-Help Group Clearinghouse, USA
A VOLUNTEER is
a person who is a light to others, giving witness in a mixed-up
age, doing well and willingly the tasks at hand-namely, being aware
of another's needs and doing something about it.
A VOLUNTEER is
a person who remembers to do the thing to make other people happy,
who takes the loneliness out of the alone by talking to them, who
is concerned when others are unconcerned, who has the courage to
be a prophet and to say the things that have to be said for the
good of all.
A VOLUNTEER is
a person whose charity is fidelity, who is faithful in an unfaithful
world, grateful in an ungrateful world, giving when all about are
grasping, listening when others need to tell about their fears and
problems. -- from "The Beacon," newsletter of Birthrite,
South Africa
Submitted 18 November 2004 by Marjorie Moore, Minds
Eye Information Service, Belleville, IL
Paul Revere earned
his living as a silversmith. But what do we remember him
for? His volunteer work. All activism
is volunteering in that it's done above and beyond earning a living
and deals with what people really care passionately about.
Remember, no one gets paid to rebel. All revolutions
start with volunteers. -- Susan J. Ellis
Posted 16 November 2004 by request of a workshop
participant who heard Susan say this and wanted it shared.
Success in life
has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself.
It's what you do for others. - Danny Thomas
Submitted on 15 November 2004 by Jack Gomez, Girl
Scounts of Shagbark Council, Illinois
At the end of
our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love
well? -- Jack Kornfield
Submitted on 2 November 2004 by Caitlin Rohrer, Girl
Scouts, Trillium Council, Pennsylvania
If you insist
on measuring yourself, place the tape around your heart rather than
your head. -- Carol Trabelle
Submitted on 2 November 2004 by Caitlin Rohrer, Girl
Scouts,Trillium Council, Pennsylvania
The highest reward
for a person's work is not what they get for it, but what they become
because of it. -- John Ruskin
Submitted on 2 November 2004 by Caitlin Rohrer, Girl
Scouts, Trillium Council, Pennsylvania
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