Top 56 Quotes About Volunteerism
#1. Allow the way to your great work to be guided by your service to others.
Mollie Marti
#2. My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.
Robert A. Heinlein
#6. There's a long history of subsidized philanthropy - particularly in the USA - and again the public has come to expect corporations to play a role in their social welfare. It's become easy for some companies to profit from citizen goodwill and volunteerism.
Ravida Din
#8. There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.
Robert A. Heinlein
#11. The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#12. The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
Barack Obama
#13. Volunteerism is the voice of the people put into action. These actions shape and mold the present into a future of which we can all be proud.
Helen Dyer
#16. 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.
Barbara Mikulski
#17. I think the spirit of America, one American wanting to make another American's life better, or internationally our desire to see countries do better, or people in countries do better, coming from this concept of volunteerism is a very valid and important part of our internal being.
George H. W. Bush
#19. Together, we can serve humanity with our unique passions, gifts and abilities.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#20. I find that the critics of voluntary service are all too often those who are prepared to accept such services when they require them but deride them with cynicism and scepticism when they see others helping and being helped.
Eva Hart
#22. I think I have found a statistical link between excessive volunteerism and victimology, the pairing of accomplished, intelligent, motivated women who are preyed upon because of the depth of their compassion.
A.J. Rich
#23. The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.
Phil Donahue
#25. Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
Horace Mann
#26. My involvement with UNICEF is particularly important to me because it is UNICEF that introduced me to volunteerism, thereby helping me to set my own personal standard of contributing my time and giving back to others. Working on behalf of UNICEF's lifesaving efforts is one of my most valued roles.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#27. Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own.
Albert Schweitzer
#28. Four American traits were central to the evolution of that culture: industriousness, egalitarianism, religiosity, and an amalgam of philanthropy and volunteerism that was uniquely American.
Charles Murray
#29. On World Humanitarian Day 2014, thanks to ALL aid workers who carry or have carried out lifesaving work. Salute to our champions
Widad Akreyi
#30. We can serve humanity with passionate commitment to our divine purpose.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#34. God has unlimited resources for every great work. Are you a willing spirit?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#35. Volunteerism is vital in all times; it keeps our communities alive ... and will make a difference in the lives of those who will come after us.
Clifton Taulbert
#38. Don't despise your contributions to Humanity. Every little kind deed counts.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#39. The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.
Albert Schweitzer
#43. Now as a former welfare recipient, I don't have a problem with expecting people to work to earn money. But where I come from we call that a job, not volunteerism.
LZ Granderson
#44. Whenever we have opportunity to serve, we must serve with all our heart.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#45. It's impossible to be involved in all situations, but there's no excuse not to be involved in something, somewhere, somehow, with someone. Make an ounce of difference.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#46. May we reach out to one another in love, in faith and in kindness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#51. 30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'd to it by compulsion.
John Smith
#53. A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity.
Mollie Marti
#54. Steve Thomas Rooney embraces a simple concept of providing a hand up versus a hand out to families in need. We are deeply grateful to volunteers, donors and other supporters around the world who help us with this life-changing work
Steve Thomas
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