Quotes on Volunteering
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"In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted
security. They wanted a comfortable life and they lost it all
-- security, comfort and freedom.... When the Athenians finally
wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them,
when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,
then Athens ceased to be free."
- Edward Gibbon
"You tell me and I forget. You teach me and I remember.
You involve me and I learn"
- Ben Franklin (Found in the "Direction Center" newsletter,
a management resource for nonprofit organizations in Western
Michigan.)
Submitted by Prof. Andrew Lewis, Director of Community Development, The Learning Institute for Nonprofit Organizations, 6314 Odana Rd., Suite 1, Madison WI 53719, ablewis@facstaff.wisc.edu, 1-800-214-8326
"What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual,
caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning
and well-executed, can deliver."
--Actor Edward James Olmos
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life
by what we give."
--Winston Churchill
"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything,
but still I can do something, and because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do something that I can do."
--Edmund Everett Hale, Writer
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single
moment before starting to improve the world."
--Anne Frank
"In American Society today, we need to have volunteerism.
I truly believe that it is the glue that will hold us together
and it will be the energy that will take us into the 21st century."
--U.S Senator Barabara Mikulski
"Our nation will succeed or fail to the degree that
all of us -- citizens and businesses alike -- are active participanats
in building strong, sustainable and enriching communities."
--Arnold Hiatt, President, The Stride Rite Foundation
"I shall pass through this world but once. Any good
therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any
human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"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."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The moral test of a society is how that society treats
those who are in the dawn of life -- the children; those who
are in the twilight of life -- the elderly; and those who are
in the shadow of life -- the sick, the needy, and the handicapped."
--Hubert Humphrey
All the above quotes were submitted by Barbara H. She shared these comments with us: "I am a volunteer at a local hospital and have been editing a journal for them for several years. In this journal I have always added quotes and I am afraid to say I had run out of sources. So finding yours was a miracle!!!!! I would love to share the ones I have found in the past with you in the hopes that someone else can enjoy them."
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this
life that no man can seriously help another without helping
himself."
-Charles Dudley Warner, 1873
"In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will
be happy"
- Karl Reiland
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just
share your riches, but reveal to them their own."
- Disraeli
"Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another
as he who has felt the same wound himself."
- Thomas Jefferson
Submitted by Ed Madara, Director, American & NJ Self-Help Group Clearinghouses. http://www.selfhelpgroups.org
"Be kind and generous everyday and volunteer, it is good for the soul."
Submitted by Bruce Bechtold. Bruce is a developer of the Volunteer Information Management Software.
Anything can be accomplished as long as you don't care who
gets the credit.--
Author Unknown
Contributed by Sue
"Volunteering is so pervasive it's invisible. We take for granted all the things that have been pioneered by concerned, active volunteers."
"Men have always volunteered, they just called themselves coaches, trustees, and firemen!"
Quotes from Susan J. Ellis, president of Energize.
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