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
