Quotes About Volunteering

Apr 8, 2017 | Blog

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



-Robert Orben

Volunteers are paid in six figures… S-M-I-L-E-S.



-Gayla LeMaire

I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It’s such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others.



-Debby Ryan

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.



-Peter Drucker

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

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.



-Albert Schweitzer

Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.



-David Thomas

There are two ways of spreading light – to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.



-Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.



-Barack Obama

The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.



-Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

I interviewed my dad on video in his final weeks. When I asked about his work and finding meaning through helping others, he responded, “I don’t think you can be focused on, ‘Oh gee, I want to make a difference.’ It has to be spontaneous. If it’s not…there’s some kind of egotistical thing going on. That’s a red flag. You hope you impact people on the deepest level you are capable of at the time. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don’t. You’re trying.

Lisa Shannon, A Thousand Sisters: My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman