Susan J. Ellis quotes

Paul Revere earned his living as a silversmith. But what do we remember him for? His volunteer work. All activism is volunteering in that it's done above and beyond earning a living and deals with what people really care passionately about. Remember, no one gets paid to rebel. All revolutions start with volunteers.
-- Susan J. Ellis

#Helping Others #People #Volunteer

Volunteering is so pervasive it's invisible. We take for granted all the things that have been pioneered by concerned, active volunteers.
-- Susan J. Ellis

#Helping Others #Volunteer #Invisible

Men have always volunteered, they just called themselves coaches, trustees, and firemen!
-- Susan J. Ellis

#Men #Volunteer #Fireman

The debt that each generation owes to the past, it must pay to the future.

Nothing is stronger than gentleness.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

I live to inspire girls, volunteers, Girl Scout staff and alumni

The work of volunteers impacts on all our lives, even if we are not aware of it.