Society of St. Vincent de Paul - Toronto Central Council
 Home Inspirational Quotes


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

 

 

 

 


 

Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Toronto Central Council

240 Church Street Toronto, Ontario M5B 1Z2
Tel: 416-364-5577 Fax: 416-364-2055
 

website: www.ssvptoronto.ca

email: info@ssvptoronto.ca

Registered Charitable Number 11915 5133 RR0002

Go To Top