Help me help us.
--inspired by other reflections listed here.
Submitted by HYPEResource, founding honest character,
HONESTe, a realtime culture movement, California, San Luis Obispo
The True Rose of Love can only be found in the heart.
--Lectorium Rosicrucianum
Submitted by J.v.d.Snepscheut, Zonnehuisgroep, Soesterberg
NL
Good ideas remain ideas - unless we act upon them.
Submitted by Andy Fryar, Vice President - Volunteering
Australia, Australia
It is better to shoot for the moon and miss, than shoot for nothing
and hit it.
--Reverend Eloise Page, Casadaga, Florida
Submitted by Abby Walters, President, Flying Turtle
Enterprises, Inc., Florida
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumps,
even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor
spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Submitted by Robin Popik, City of Plano Volunteer
Program, Texas USA
When it comes to helpng you, some people stop at nothing.
-- Unknown
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
-- Mignon McLaughlin
Don't wait for the last judgement - it takes place every day.
-- Albert Camus
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
- - Mother Teresa
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. --
Dodie Smith
Submitted by Mike Corbin, Volunteer Services Director,
MI
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight,
but has no vision.
--Helen Keller
Submitted by Raven Alexander, Student Director, Florida
Atlantic University Volunteer Center, Florida
All we have in this world is each other. Life is meant to be shared.
--Patricia A. Chambers
Submitted by Patricia A. Chambers, Director of Volunteer
Services, St. Mary's Hospital , Huntington, WV, USA
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
--Knights of Pythogoras
Submitted by Tara Huxley , Camp Director Boys and Girls
Club Community Services of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
It is believing in what you do, no matter in which aspect, that
makes every moment fulfilling.
--Self
Submitted by Fiona Chia, , Singapore
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other
people.
--Aristotle
Submitted by Marilyn Gitsidis, Program Assistant, Seniors
Support Services, Hellenic Home for the Aged, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
If your heart is full, it shouldn't matter if your pockets are
empty.
--Karen Dawson, Volunteer at Clay Elementary School Clay, WV
Submitted by Beth Anderson, AmeriCorps*VISTA, West
Virginia
We must be the change we wish to see.
--M.K. Gandhi
Submitted by Brian Cugelman, IYV Webmaster, UNV , Germany
You can't leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting
down.
--Nelson Rockefeller.
Submitted by Mary St. John, Grants Admin., Pets & People
Humane Society, Inc., Oklahoma USA
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same
level of thinking we were at when we created them.
--Albert Einstein
Submitted by Jill C. Howland, ,
You've got to think about 'big things' while you're doing small
things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
--Alvin Toffler
Submitted by David Ontonovich, CDHVS, National Coordinator,
Volunteer Resources - Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange,
Toronto, ON - CANADA
Past the beggar and the suffering walk he who asks, 'Why, oh God,
do you not do something for these people?' To which God replied, 'I
did do something, I made you.'
--old Sufi saying
Submitted by Mike Corbin, Volunteer Services Director,
Lutheran Social Services of Michigan, Michigan, USA
A civilization flourishes when people plant trees under whose
shade they will never sit.
--Greek Proverb
Submitted by Michelle C. Jurjavcic, Volunteer Coordinator,
Bill Wilson Center, Santa Clara, CA
Serving humanity is like giving life to the lifeless.
--Self
Submitted by Ivy Nagarajan, Vice-President, Inner Wheel
Club of Meenambakkam, IW District 323., Madras, Tamil Nadu, South
India
The people who appreciate others are themselves to be appreciated.
--Self thought
Submitted by Ashish Mahajan, CEO,Puranjay's Powertech,
Chandigarh,Punjab,India
As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many
a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.
--William Shakespeare Henry V, Act I, Sc.2
Submitted by Sue Smith, Great Works Regional Land Trust,
ME
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your
riches, but reveal them to their own.
--Benjamin Disraeli
Submitted by Rachel Edmunds, Field Officer (Youth Volunteering);
Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity, Bedfordshire, England
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important
that you do it.
--M. Gandhi
Submitted by Douglas Eggleston, Director, Emergency
Services - American Red Cross, VA - USA
You have to become involved to make an impact. No one is impressed
with the won/loss record of the referee.
--John Holcomb
Submitted by Sue Staggs, State Director, Tomorrows
Leaders Today, Texas, USA
There are three kinds of people: Those who make things happen,
those who watch things happen, and those who say, 'what happened?'
--Casey Stengel
Submitted by Sue Staggs, State Director, Tomorrow's
Leaders Today, Texas, USA
There are only two rules to change: One is to begin; the second
is to continue.
--unknown
Submitted by Sue Staggs, State Director, Tomorrow's
Leaders Today, Texas, USA
People don't care how much you know, unless they know how much
you care.
--Anonymous--Service Learning Manual
Submitted by Donna Borges, , Canby, OR,, USA
One hand alone does not clap.
--Arab Proverb
Submitted by Christie, Volunteer Coordinator, Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada
Be honest, be real - people respect you for that.
--Self
Submitted by Augusto Gomes, , Canada
How many people did you help make happy today? Was one of them
you?
--self - after a long day
Submitted by Sherry Whitlow, Volunteer Coordinator,
Arthur Edwards Elementary School, North Carolina
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
if you are alive, it isn't.
--Richard Bach
Submitted by Mike Corbin, Volunteer Services Director,
Lutheran Social Services of Michigan, Michigan, USA
It's good to be blessed. It's better to be a blessing.
Submitted by Kathy Carter, Volunteer Coordinator of
Foster Care Citizen Review of Palm Beach Conty, West Palm Beach, Fl
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
--- Emerson
Submitted by Linda Steed, Volunteer Coordinator, Long
Term Care Ombudsman Program, Shawnee Alliance for Seniors, Carterville,
IL
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith
in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told
how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent.
I go for anything new that might improve the past.
--Clara Barton
Submitted by John Richards, Aquinas College, Perth,
Australia
I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have
three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their
minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe
that what self-centered people have torn down, other-centered people
can build up
--Martin Luther King
Submitted by John Richards, Aquinas College, Perth,
AUSTRALIA
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live
forever.
--Mahatma Gandhi
Submitted by Devi Singh, , India, AP (Hyderabad)
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