Thought-Provoking
& Inspirational Quotes
Don't
ever question the value of volunteers. Noah's
Ark
was built by volunteers; the Titanic was built by
professionals.
You
make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you
give. -- Winston
Churchill
Those
who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the person
doing it. - Chinese Proverb
It
is one of the beautiful compensations of life, that no man can
sincerely help another without helping himself.
-- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
To
the world you may be one person, But to one person you may be
the world.
--
Anonymous
If you
can't go where people are happier,
try to make people
happier where you are.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
The deeds
you do
may be the only sermon
some persons will hear today. - Saint Francis of
Assisi
They don't
care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
I don't
know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: The
only ones among you who will be really happy are those who
have sought and found how to serve.
--Albert Schweitzer
"The
best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service
of others."
--~Ghandi
Don't wait
for the last judgement - it takes place every day.
-- Albert
Camus
The
greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other
people.
--Aristotle
You've got
to think about 'big things' while you're doing small things,
so that all the small things go in the right direction.
--Alvin Toffler
Past the
beggar and the suffering walk he who asks, 'Why, oh God, do
you not do something for these people?' To which God replied,
'I did do something, I made you.'
--old Sufi saying
There are
three kinds of people: Those who make things happen, those who
watch things happen, and those who say, 'what happened?'
--Casey Stengel
Live as if
you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live
forever.
--Mahatma Gandhi
"How
wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the
world."
--Anne Frank
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
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