What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Winston Churchill A Mind Like His: Developing the Character of Christ
Categories: service volunteerism vision

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pine The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: service ministry volunteerism

You really can change the world if you care enough.
Marion Wright Edelman Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: activism volunteerism change

Better to light a candle then to curse the darkness.
Chinese proverb The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: action service volunteerism

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Dick Gregory The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness joy service ministry volunteerism

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Albert Schweitzer The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: service ministry volunteerism happiness joy

Friends, I have lost a day.
Titus, on reflecting that he had done nothing to help anyone all day. The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: service kindness compassion volunteerism

I know it sounds like a cliche, but the greatest gift that you can give yourself comes from helping someone else. We get so caught up in our own lives and in our unrealistic worlds. We're so busy achieving and competing and worrying about silly little minutiae that we lose sight of the larger picture.
Norma Kamali "Unit of One," Fast Company, December 1999
Categories: volunteerism sharing giving community

Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.
Albert Einstein The Quotable Einstein
Categories: responsibility ministry service volunteerism

What is the city but the people?
William Shakespeare Power Quotes
Categories: society people community volunteerism responsibility

Think that day lost whose descending sun,
views from they hand no noble action done.
Joseph Joubert The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: volunteerism giving sharing give share

So long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
Pandit Jawaharal Nehru The Guinness Chronicle of the 20th-century in Quotations edited by David Milsted
Categories: service volunteerism justice civil rights

To forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness service ministry helping volunteerism

Hunger allows no choice
To the citizens or the police;
We must love one another or die.
W.H. Auden The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: society responsibility charity service volunteerism

If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help the next generation.
Chinese proverb The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness : Feel, Think, and Live Better Than You Ever Thought Possible
Categories: service serving volunteering volunteerism ministry

One drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.
Hannah More The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: service volunteerism talents giving back

The ready back gets all the loads.
Latvian proverbs The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: willingness availability volunteerism responsibility leadership

No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.
Charles Dickens Words for All Occasions
Categories: purpose sharing volunteering volunteerism helping

When we serve with depth and sincerity, we get a glimpse of the essential quality of who we really can become.
Greg Anderson The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness : Feel, Think, and Live Better Than You Ever Thought Possible
Categories: service volunteerism giving back sharing

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: giving sharing volunteerism volunteering service ministry

The million little things that drop into your hands
The small opportunities each day brings
He leaves us free to use or abuse
And goes unchanging along His silent way.
Helen Keller Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: service volunteerism giving sharing choice ministry

Be useful where thou livest.
George Herbert Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: service volunteerism giving serving servant leadership

No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley Warner The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: help service serving ministering ministry volunteering volunteerism

No man can become rich without himself enriching others.
Andrew Carnegie Words for All Occasions
Categories: volunteerism help share success achievement giving back

No stranger to trouble myself I am learning to care for the unhappy.
Virgil The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: trouble pain suffering service ministry volunteerism

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Lucy Larcom Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: community volunteerism emotions feeling action change

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.
Norman Vincent Peale Have a Great Day
Categories: trouble help challenges obstacles win/win volunteerism ministry service

Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind.
Ethel Percy Audrus Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: aging age self-improvement self-knowledge volunteerism ministry sharing giving

It is the duty of youth to bring its fresh powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should lift the world forward. That is what they are for.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: youth work effort society community progress volunteerism

The ocean is made of drops.
Mother Teresa The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Categories: actions service volunteerism helping caring community change

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
Rabbi Harold Kushner The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: service ministry caring sharing volunteerism love relationships

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: service ministry giving sharing serving volunteerism happiness joy

Life is a journey, and one thing’s for sure: You don’t see many hearses with luggage racks on them. We’re privileged to be here, so instead of just using God’s resources, we should leave the place a little better than we found it-or at least leave it the same.
Joel Cunningham "Unit of One" Fast Company, December 1999
Categories: life death greed materialism service volunteerism giving

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Helen Keller Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: responsibility society community welfare justice ministry volunteerism

Do all the good you can
By all the means you can
In all the ways you can
In all the places you can
To all the people you can
As long as ever you can.
John Wesley A Grateful Heart
Categories: service ministry volunteerism mercy compassion kindness actions

Life's most persistant and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
Martin Luther King, Jr. Bits and Pieces
Categories: service volunteerism volunteering helping community serving giving

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything you gave me."
Erma Bombeck Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: talent skill ability service giving sharing volunteerism

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Martin Luther King, Jr. The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: happiness joy fulfillment service ministry giving sharing volunteerism

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: work talents skills ability giving sharing volunteerism action

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Helen Keller Light from Many Lamps
Categories: unhappy unhappiness sadness depression meaning ministry giving volunteerism

How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: light integrity honesty character actions sharing helping volunteerism

Be the change you want to see in the world.
Gandhi Bits and Pieces magazine, Vol. R No. 40
Categories: action effort change society volunteerism grass roots organizations

Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time, at least.
Charley Willey The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness joy service ministry volunteerism hugs smiles giving sharing

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: action volunteerism work effort change community giving sharing leadership

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
Sallust The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: meaning purpose fulfillment service ministry volunteerism work career action

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
Charles de Montesquieu The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happy joy kindness sharing relationships love loving friendship volunteerism character

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Helen Keller Light from Many Lamps
Categories: sharing giving volunteerism share give happiness meaning sadness depression

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Ray Lyman Wilbur Light from Many Lamps
Categories: happiness service ministry volunteerism giving sharing volunteering community meaning fulfillment

The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
W. Beran Wolfe Light from Many Lamps
Categories: happiness joy meaning purpose fulfillment giving sharing society community volunteerism volunteering

Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.
Ben Linder Live the Life You Love
Categories: gifts skills talents ability work effort giving sharing volunteerism ministry

If you live only for yourself, you are always in immediate danger of being bored to death with the repetition of your own views and interests.
W. Beran Wolfe Light from Many Lamps
Categories: selfishness selflessness giving sharing volunteerism volunteering meaning fulfillment happiness joy balance

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Herman Melville The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: purpose meaning fulfillment relationships society actions responsibility service ministry volunteerism cause and effect

How should one live?
Live
Welcoming
to all.
Mechthild von Magdeburg "Live Welcoming to All" by Sue Monk Kidd, which appeared in the September/October 1997 Weavings.
Categories: attention mindfulness moment now present attentive love giving sharing hospitality charity volunteerism

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Madame De Maintenon The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: help service serving giving sharing volunteering volunteerism adversity challenges problems difficulty difficulties

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: virtue usefulness talents serving sharing volunteerism relationships love character service giving back

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap, the being a force of nature instead of a feverish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: vision mission service giving sharing volunteerism volunteering joy happiness meaning purpose fulfillment attitude reason for living

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness ministry service volunteerism happiness joy