Showing posts with label National Volunteer Week. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Volunteer Week. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Volunteer Appreciation Quotes


The breeze, the trees, the honey bees - all volunteers! ~Juliet Carinreap


There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.  ~Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante

Those who can, do.  Those who can do more, volunteer. ~Author Unknown

The world is hugged by the faithful arms of volunteers.~Terri Guillemets

You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man.  ~Seth Parker

Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, 
but because they're priceless.  ~Sherry Anderson  


It's easy to make a buck.  It's a lot tougher to make a difference.  ~Tom Brokaw

Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart. ~Elizabeth Andrew

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.  ~Anne Frank

The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.  ~Leo Rosten

I am only one, but I am one.  I cannot do everything, but I can do something.  And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.  ~Edward Everett Hale
 
Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.~Author Unknown

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.  ~Nelson Henderson

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.  ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.  ~Henry David Thoreau

You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~Kahlil Gibran
 
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands.  You need to be able to throw something back.  ~Maya Angelou

Everybody can be great.  Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.... You only need a heart full of grace.  A soul generated by love.  ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.  ~Author Unknown

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~James Matthew Barrie

Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not.  ~Dan Bennett