Volunteer Quotes

Text in a book
What is the city but the people?
William Shakespeare

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

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Helen Keller

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

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

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

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

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.
Chinese proverb as quoted by Norman Vincent Peale

You really can change the world if you care enough.
Marion Wright Edelman

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