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In searching for quotes on volunteering, helping and service, one person's name came up over and over again, Mother Teresa, one of my motivator for the creation of this site. The second name was that of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King. What follows are a collection of inspirational and motivational quotes to encourage you to volunteer, and perhaps explain why so many people do. To paraphrase the words of Steve Allen:

To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things.
It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.

Mother Teresa

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to humanity.

There is no better exercise for your heart,
Than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment:
we can start now, start slowly changing the world!
How lovely that everyone, great and small,
can make a contribution toward introducing justice straight away.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain,
can we truly know what love means.

A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty;
an optimist sees the same glass as half full.
But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for someone who might be thirsty.

There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through...
sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.

Mother Teresa

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

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

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.

Learn to lead in a nourishing manner.
Learn to lead without being possessive.
Learn to be helpful without taking the credit.
Learn to lead without coercion.

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years,
but you will be helped.
Nature must pay off the debt...It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.

The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.

Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning.
Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.

Mother Teresa

Though government has an important role to play in meeting the many challenges that remain before us, we are coming to understand that no organization, including government, will fully succeed without the active participation of each of us.
Volunteers are vital to enabling this country to live up to the true promise of its heritage.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair,
but manifestations of strength and resolution.

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

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts
of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

Extraordinary things are accomplished by a healing heart.

Kirsti A. Dyer, MD, MS

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

Gerald Jampolsky

 It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life,
that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
Those among you who will be truly happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Dr. Albert Schweitzer

We believe that love is the most powerful healing force in the universe.

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Network for Attitudinal Healing International

Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world's problems.
It might be one of us.
With your help, we can build a more hopeful world.

Marianne Larned

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. We must find each other.

Mother Theresa

If I can help somebody as I pass along,
if I can cheer somebody with a word or song,
if I can show somebody he's traveling wrong,
then my living will not be in vain.

 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal.
In every heart there is the power to do it.

Marianne Williamson

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

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Love is not getting, but giving.
Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire--oh, no--love is not that!
It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living
Yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

Henry Van Dyke

In this troubled world, it's refreshing to find someone who still has the time to be kind.
Someone who still has the faith to believe that the more you give, the more you receive.
Someone who's ready by thought, word, or deed to reach out a hand, in the hour of need.

Helen Steiner Rice

We can do anything we want, if we stick to it long enough.

Helen Keller

Agape is understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill toward all men. Agape is an overflowing love which seeks nothing in return. Theologians would say that it is the love of God operating in the human heart. When you rise to love on this level, you love all men not because you life them, not because their ways appeal to you, but you love them because God loves them.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live.
Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on the future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

Five things constitute perfect virtue:
gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity and kindness.

Confucius

Caring is a reflex...You live, you help.

Ram Dass

When you are kind to someone in trouble,
you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else,
and it'll become like a wildfire.

Whoopi Goldberg

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things,
event if we do not get anything in return.
It is the joy of our life to do them.
When we do good things from this inner desire,
there is a kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.

Emanuel Swedenborg

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood
and don't assign them tasks and work,
but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint Exupery

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Immanuel Kant

I shall pass through this world but once.
Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being,
let me do it now.
Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Etienne de Grellet

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