Quotes on Volunteer Service

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

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.

I am only one,_x000D_ But still I am one.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

You only need a heart full of grace

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

No one can do everything, but everyone can do something