Volunteer Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.