Quotes on Volunteer

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

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

In doing your best serving others for free, a lot of eyebrows will raise and sneers will curve many a - faces. But in the end those incredulous to what you put up with to help, no longer matter. It's not between you and those snobs, but with whom you have given your hand to lift, and of course to God who Is watching and noting it in your book.

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.

No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.

The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.

As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

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

Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

Poverty in Egypt, or anywhere else, is not very difficult to explain. There are three basic causes: People are poor because they cannot produce anything highly valued by others. They can produce things highly valued by others but are hampered or prevented from doing so. Or, they volunteer to be poor.

You only need a heart full of grace

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

Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only He can lead.