Inspirational Volunteer Quotes:

Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: 4th Of July, Caring, Compassion, Inspirational Volunteer, Unselfish Love

Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.

- Sherry Anderson

topic: Appreciation, Volunteer, Priceless, Inspirational Volunteer, Volunteerism

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Courage, Heart, Sacrifice, Inspirational Volunteer, Love Sacrifice

Here's to all volunteers, those dedicated people who believe in all work and no pay.

- Robert Orben

topic: Believe, Volunteer, People, Inspirational Volunteer, Volunteerism

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Social Democracy, Social Entrepreneurship

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Positive, Social Entrepreneurship, Making A Difference In The World

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

- Helen Keller

source: "The Book of Good Cheer : A Little Bundle of Cheery Thoughts‎" by Edwin Osgood Grover, (p. 28), 1909.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Single, Making A Difference In The World, Inspirational Student

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

topic: Attitude, Needs, World, Inspirational Volunteer, Volunteerism

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

- George Washington Carver

topic: New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom, Social Good, New Career

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of each of your arms.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Beauty, Kindness, Eye, Inspirational Volunteer, Volunteer Service

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Importunate, Had A Great Time

Do your best with what you have where you are.

- Lucy Punch

topic: Where You Are, Social Good, Inspirational Achievement, New Career, Inspirational Charity

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Brother, World, All Alone, Inspirational Volunteer, Others Helping You

…Spread your love everywhere you go.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Love, Inspirational, Motivational, Inspirational Charity, Kindness Generosity

All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone.

- Tony Robbins

topic: Growth, Comfort, Ends, Solo Travel, Safety Zone

What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver.

- Edward James Olmos

topic: Caring, Helping Others, Government, Inspirational Volunteer

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

- James Russell Lowell

source: 1867 'Rousseau and the Sentimentalists', in the North American Review, Jul.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Volunteer, Charity And Giving

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

- Aesop

source: Aesop (1963). “Aesop's fables”, Cliffs Notes

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Making A Difference In The World, Joy Happiness

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Marriage, Making A Difference In The World, Inspirational Charity

Never underestimate your ability to make someone else's life better - even if you never know it.

- Greg Louganis

topic: Volunteer, Underestimate, Ability, Inspirational Volunteer, Human Potential

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

topic: Believe, Helping Others, Together, Society Today, Inspirational Volunteer

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

- Unknown

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Empowering Women

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - Volume”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Social Good, Failure In Life

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

- Theodore Isaac Rubin

source: "Kindness Can Open Hearts and Unexpected Opportunities" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2015.

topic: Wisdom, Appreciation, Kindness, Kindness And Compassion, Inspirational Volunteer

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

- Winston Churchill

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Social Good, Making A Difference In The World

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

topic: Encouragement, Freedom, Business, Way In Life, Social Good

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Norman MacEwen

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Giving, Social Good, Making A Difference In The World

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Greatness, Determined, Making A Difference In The World, Inspirational Volunteer, Leadership And Service

You only need a heart full of grace

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Heart, Grace, Needs, Making A Difference In The World, Inspirational Charity

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

- Edward Everett

topic: Stills, Making A Difference In The World, Inspirational Student, Acts Of Kindness, Inspirational Volunteer

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

- John Bunyan

topic: Motivational, Success, Perseverance, Inspirational Charity, Kindness Generosity

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

- Saul Alinsky

topic: Creativity, Mean, Tactics, Social Good, Failure In Life

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Freedom, Inspirational Volunteer, What Is Happiness

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

- Neale Donald Walsch

topic: Life, Motivational, Powerful, Solo Travel, Safety Zone

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Love, Peace, Money, Kindness Generosity, Inspirational Volunteer

No one can do everything, but everyone can do something

- Max Lucado

source: Max Lucado, Jenna Lucado Bishop (2010). “You Were Made to Make a Difference”, p.109, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Volunteer, Donation, Torture, Inspirational Volunteer, Organ Donation

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

- Horace Mann

source: "Thoughts" by Jessie K. Freeman and Sarah S. B. Yule, (p. 83), 1901.

topic: Heart, Helping Others, Self, Inner Life, Undoing

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

source: Albert Pike (1899). “Ex Corde Locutiones...: Words from the Heart Spoken of His Dead Brethren...”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Thank You, Inspirational Death, Kindness Generosity