80+ Best Volunteer Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Volunteer people always try to do good things. Being a volunteer is one of the good things you can do in your life. It also can help you to connect with the community, learn new skills, and even advance your career. Inspirational volunteering quotes will encourage you to take action and motivate you to make a difference.

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Inspirational Volunteer Quotes

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth. Muhammad Ali

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good. Aristotle

Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they’re priceless. Sherry Anderson

Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart. Elizabeth Andrew

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Mahatma Gandhi

Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they’re priceless. Sherry Anderson

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. Oscar Wilde

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia

If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever. Kofi Annan

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands  one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. Audrey Hepburn

Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain loving one another. Erma Bombeck

You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man. Seth Parker

It is not enough to be compassionate you must act. The Dalai Lama

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others? Martin Luther King, Jr.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Mahatma Gandhi

Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place. Natalie Portman

The world is hugged by the faithful arms of volunteers. Terri Guillemets

The purpose of life is not to be happy, but to matter  to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. Leo Rosten

God and angels don’t get paid even though theirs is some of the most important work around. Ditto for volunteers. Cherishe Archer

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. William Shakespeare

Volunteers will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no volunteers. Ken Wyman

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. Helen Keller

You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. John Bunyan

Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart. Elizabeth Andrew

I’ve learnt that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back. Maya Angelou

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. John E. Southard

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. Oscar Wilde

It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. Tom Brokaw

Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls. David Thomas

Act as if what you do makes a difference.  It does. William James

It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. Tom Brokaw

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need. Gillian Anderson

If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart. Rumi

Volunteerism is currency that appreciates. Administrators Of Volunteer Resources

The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.  Ivan Scheier

The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward. Carol Ryrie Brink

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. Helen Keller

Help one another. There’s no time like the present, and no present like the time. James Durst

The greatest poverty that can afflict the human spirit is the loss of a generous heart. You will know that success has slipped away when your passion for helping others grows cold. Bill Lane Doulos

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. Dr. Seuss

Never underestimate your ability to make someone else’s life better  even if you never know it. Greg Louganis

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. Mother Teresa

Three keys to more abundant living caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others. William Arthur Ward

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate. Quoted in P.S.

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth. Stonewall Jackson

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. Malayan Proverb

Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful. Stephen King

At the end of the day it’s not about what you have or even what you’ve accomplished it’s about who you’ve lifted up, who you’ve made better. It’s about what you’ve given back. Denzel Washington

Only a life lived for others is worth living. Albert Einstein

Even if you just change one life, you’ve changed the world forever. Mike Satterfield

Volunteering creates a national character in which the community and the nation take on a spirit of compassion, comradeship, and confidence. Brian O’Connell

You give but little when you give of your possessions.  It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. Kahlil Gibran

If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever. Kofi Annan

I am only one, but I am one.  I cannot do everything, but I can do something.  And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. Edward Everett Hale

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. William Shakespeare

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. James Matthew Barrie

If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart. Rumi

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pike

From my early school days, I was brought up with the belief that we have a duty to use our talents, to volunteer and to make a contribution. Michael Hintze

Even if it’s a little thing, do something for those who have need of a man’s help something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For, remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here, too. Albert Schweitzer

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy. Kahlil Gibran

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands.  You need to be able to throw something back. Maya Angelou

Whatever community organization, whether it’s a women’s organization, or fighting for racial justice you will get satisfaction out of doing something to give back to the community that you never get in any other way. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia

You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man. Seth Parker

The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit. Nelson Henderson

At the end of the day it’s not about what you have or even what you’ve accomplished it’s about who you’ve lifted up, who you’ve made better. It’s about what you’ve given back. Denzel Washington

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. Henry David Thoreau

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. Herman Melville

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. Barbara De Angelis

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. Betty Reese

Even if you just change one life, you’ve changed the world forever. Mike Satterfield