My Favorite Quotes About Volunteering

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

• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. (Albert Einstein)

• Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overcome the world. (Desmond Tutu)

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

• Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. (Sally Koch)

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

• There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. (John Andrew Holmes)

• We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. (Mother Teresa)

• 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)

• No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of others. (Joseph Addison)  

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

• 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)

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

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

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

• Volunteers are paid in six figures…S-M-I-L-E-S. (Gayla Lemaire)

• 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)

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

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

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

 

For even more inspiration, please check out these 16 quotes for caregivers.