"Without community service, we would not have a strong quality
of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient.
It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop..."
-- Dr. Dorothy I. Height president and CEO of the National Council
of Negro Women
Submitted by Lisa , Junior Volunteer, Enloe Medical
Center, California, USA
'No joy can equal the joy serving others.' -Sai Baba
--It was a single sheet copy I found among
my papers with no reference as to where it came from.
Submitted by Jayne M McNeil, Director - Volunteer
Avery County, North Ccarolina
"When you give to others, you speak a silent but audible
thank you. Appreciation for others and ourselves is life and
spirit for each and every one of us."
--
Submitted and written by Kara "Cherry" Whitaker,
14 years old, Ohio, United states
"You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what
you give."
--Winston Churchill
Submitted by Brandon Mills, Alpha Phi Omega Gamma
Lambda Chapter, SC, USA
"How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to
improve the world."
--Anne Frank
Submitted by Sue Staggs, State Director, "Tomorrow's
Leaders Today", Texas, USA
"Unless your department has a budget infinitely greater
than most, you will not get rich being a volunteer director/coordinator,
but your life will be indescribably enriched by the people you
meet and work with. A wise lady once told me that when you find
your ideal job, you will do it for less than they pay you and
when you find your calling you will do it for free. This is
my ideal job. I hope you find yours."
--Martin Tichenor, Volunteer Director for a medium security
prison in Missouri, written to a newly "appointed" volunteer
coordinator
Submitted by Linda Lowe, Volunteer Coordinator,
City of Thornton, Thornton, CO, USA
"When you open your heart to giving, angels fly to your
door."
--unknown
Submitted by Hillary Roberts, Chapter Coord/Project
Linus, NJ/USA
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with
you nothing that you have received - only what you have given:
a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and
courage.
--St. Francis of Assisi
Submitted by Claire Rochon, Manager, Fund Development,
Street Kids International, Canada
There are two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel
for what we receive, and the larger kind we feel for what we
give.
--Edward Arlington Robinson
Submitted by Katherine Morton, Volunteer Program
Coordinator, AIDS Calgary Awareness Association, Calgary, AB
Canada
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that
noone can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Submitted by Bernie Anderson, Volunteer Child
and Youth Health, Adelaide, South Australia
There is only one thing worse than training your volunteers
and having them leave - and that's not training them, and having
them stay.
--unknown
Submitted by Eileen Macmillan, American Friends
of the University of Edinburgh, CA, USA
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted"
--Aesop
Submitted by Judy P. King, Director of Volunteer
Services, Georgia - USA
"Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start
a movement."
--Max Lucado, in On the Anvil
Submitted from Pennsylvania, USA
"If every American donated five hours a week, it would
equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers."
--Whoopi Goldberg
Submitted by Ann Rubin, Manager of Volunteer
Services, Hospice of Michigan, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
"Forget yourself for others, and others will never
forget you."
--author unknown
Submitted by Nancy O. , PTA Officer, Chicago,
Il
"If you try to find time for something that matters,
you never will. You must make the time."
--Unknown
Submitted by Ruth Page, Director of the Catawba
Fund, Catawba College, North Carolina, USA
"Volunteers are paid in six figures... S-M-I-L-E-S"
--Gayla LeMaire -A Y Indian Princess Mom
Submitted by Bob Eilenfeldt, Field Chief - YMCA
Indian Program, Texas
"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but
small ones surround us every day."
--Sally Koch
Submitted by Terry Mack, , Manger of Volunteer
Resources, The Support Network, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
"I feel that we all must live, so that when we are
gone, everyone will miss the work we did, but someone has learned
by watching us, how to take up the banner and go forward. "
--Self
Submitted by Debby Rainey, Site Manager Meals-On-Wheels,
Tennessee
"Help one another; there's no time like the present
and no present like the time."
--James Durst, poet/songwriter/troubadour
Submitted by Sarah H. Elliston, Sr Associate,
Volunteer Resource Center , Cincinnati, OH USA
"Some get and forget. Some give and forgive."
--Marquis on a street corner
Submitted by Fr. Bryan Bayda, The Welcome Home,
Manitoba
"I did not find the world desolate when I entered it.
My fathers planted for me before I arrived, so I plant for those
who come after me."
- Talmud
Submitted by Mike Corbin, Volunteer Services
Director, Lutheran Social Services of Michigan, Michigan,USA
"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room
here on Earth."
--Mohammed Ali
Submitted by David Edwards, Secretary, Watkins
Elementary School, South Carolina, USA
"If you make a lot of money, put it to use helping
others while you are living. It is wealth's greatest satisfaction."
--Anonymous African Origin
Submitted by C. Lightbourne, Consultant,
Girl Scouts...Where Girls Grow Strong., New York, USA
"Volunteers are somebody! Somebody who cares, Somebody
who devotes time without pay, Somebody who praises all, large
or small and somebody who has a common bond with others to make
things better." --Self
Submitted by Candice Witzkoske, Admin. Assistant,
Texas
"It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough
to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I
do my work well. I'm a good parent.' That's all very well. But
you must do something more.
"Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every person
has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and
to realize his own true worth. You must give some time to your
fellow man.
"Even if it's a little thing, do something for those
who have need of a man's help, something for which you get no
pay but the privilege of doing it. For, remember, you don't
live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too."
--Albert Schweitzer Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1952
Submitted by Gene Budbill, Snohomish County Chapter,
American Red Cross, Washington, USA
"This is the true joy in life being used for a purpose
recognized by yourself as a mighty one being a force of Nature
instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances,
complaining that the world will not devote itself to making
you happy. . . ."
"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. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die.
For the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for
its own sake. "
"Life is no brief candle to me. It's a sort of splendid
torch which I've got to hold up for the moment, and I want to
make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to
future generations."
--George Bernard Shaw
Submitted by Harvey LeCato, Certified Trainer,
Sertoma Int'l, Colorado
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot
be seen nor touched...but felt in the heart."
--Helen Keller
Submitted by Tiffany Bloom, Volunteer at
local retirement home, New Jersey
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is 'What are
you doing for others?' "
--Rev. Martin Luther King
Submitted by Anna Soulek, Student, Wyoming, USA
"When you stop giving and offering something to the rest
of the world, it's time to turn out the lights."
--George Burns
Submitted by Anna Soulek, Student, Wyoming, USA
"If you want to change the world, be that change."
--Ghandi
Submitted by Anna Soulek, Student, Wyoming, USA
"You are a rainbow between a child and reading."
--VISTA volunteer for America Reads - Illinois
Submitted by Maidena Navratil, QC RSVP, Illinois
& Iowa, USA
"To truly find yourself, touch as many lives as possible!"
--Ashley Klein, Youth as Resources youth Board Member
Submitted by Geri Rogers, Coordinator, Hamilton
County, IN Youth as Resources, Indiana
"It is not how much you do, but how much love you put
in the doing."
--Mother Theresa
Submitted by Michelle Horazdovsky, Director
of Volunteer Services, Chelsea, MI
"The noble man will only ask of his fellow men what
he expects of himself. He will fault in others only what he
himself feels free of. "
--Dseng De
Submitted by Robin Shapiro, New York City
"To ease another's heartache is to forget one's
own" - Abraham Lincoln
"It is in giving oneself that one receives."
- Francis of Assisi
"A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives
roses."
- Chinese proverb
"Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too
will reach the other side." Kindness can become its own motive.
We are made kind by being kind."
- Eric Hoffer (1902-83), U.S. Philosopher, "The Passionate State
of Mind," p. 38
"If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your
arm As you get older you must remember you have a second hand.
The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help
others."
- Audrey Hepburn
"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's
a comfort to go hand in hand."
- Emily Kimbrough
Submitted by Ed Madara, Director, American
& NJ Group Self-Help Group Clearinghouses, http://www.selfhelpgroups.org
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