Quotes About Nonprofit Work

#1. I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

Chelsea Clinton

#2. Do not postpone what's important to you simply because others don't share your priorities

Hemal Jhaveri

#3. The success of 'Scrubs' allowed me to pursue anything I felt passionately about without having to worry about money. It allowed me to spend my summer work shopping my show at a nonprofit theater.

Zach Braff

#4. I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.

Dianne Feinstein

#5. I've just always loved animals. So I've often thought that if I weren't a writer I'd work for some nonprofit organization that does something positive for animals.

Cate Marvin

#6. In this life, you cannot understand what you have not lived.

Cyrille Mendes

#7. Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.

Brian W. Aldiss

#8. And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

Madeleine L'Engle

#9. Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.

Abraham Kuyper

#10. Why would you stick someone you love down in a lonely hole in the dirt? Where it's cold, and dirty, and full of bugs?

Kami Garcia

#11. It is better to give then to lend, and it costs about the same.

Philip Gibbs

#12. And this speaks to the importance of taking advantage of every tax-advantaged investment opportunity that you can. You should maximize your contributions if you've got a 401(k), or a 403(b) if you work for a nonprofit. You should take every opportunity to invest in a tax-deferred way.

Anthony Robbins

#13. She was a single mother of four kids, with little help from Twon, who turned into a complete psychopath once they divorced.

Jessica N. Watkins

#14. During the week, my days are consumed with school commitments, play-dates and work for Baby Buggy, a nonprofit I started, which collects kids' gear for parents in need. So on weekends, I look forward to uninterrupted time with my family.

Jessica Seinfeld

#15. I think I've been very, very lucky in my life, and I do believe in public service.

Beeban Kidron

#16. The gays, the kids, the misfits, the freaks, the ones who feel like they don't have a place... you got it. Just be you.

Michelle Visage