Volunteerism Quotes

“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.” -Mother Teresa

“We can do no great things, only small things with great love.” -Mother Teresa

“Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service.” -Bill Clinton

“Snowflakes melt alone – but together they can be traffic stoppers!” -anonymous

“Volunteers are not paid not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless.” -anonymous

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” -Mohammed Ali

“Everyone can be great because anyone can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't even have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Work is love made visible.” -Kahlil Gibran

“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 relationship to humanity.” –MLK

“There is no better exercise for your heart, than reaching down and helping to life someone up.” -Bernard Meltzer

“”No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” -Aesop

“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.”
-Marianne Williamson

“The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.” Johnetta B. Cole

“”Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singulare cannot really exist.” -Paula Gunn Allen

“One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.” -Henry David Thoreau

“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” -Winston Churchill

V aluable is the work you do.
O utstanding is how you always come through.
L oyal, sincere and full of good cheer,
U ntiring in your efforts throughout the year.
N otable are the contributions you make.
T rustworthy in every project you take.
E ager to reach your every goal.
E ffective in the way you fulfill your role.
R eady with a smile like a shining star,
S pecial and wonderful—that's what you are.
--unknown