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Quotations About Voluntarism and Giving
Here's our growing collection of thoughts, reflections and quips on different aspects of the voluntary sector. If you have an addition to make, or an attribution to offer, please send an e-mail to editor@charityvillage.com.
Voluntarism and Service
- If you find it in your heart to care for someone else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou
- We are what we repeatedly do.
-- Aristotle
- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
- If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain.
If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees.
If you want one hundred years of prosperity, grow people."
-- Chinese Proverb
- What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?
-- Winston Churchill
- It is better to light one candle that curse the darkness
-- Confucius
- No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.
-- Charles Dickens
- Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something that you do in your spare time.
-- Marion Wright Edelman
- What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
-- George Elliot
- The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.
-- John Gay
- You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
-- Kahlil Gibran
- Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
-- Robert F. Kennedy
- Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
- The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
-- Charles Lamb
- To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being.
-- John Lubbock
- Accomplishment is when you use your extra strength to help someone else, rather than to get to the top first.
-- Donald Ernest Mansell
- There is a destiny that makes men brothers:
None goes his way alone;
All that we send into the lives of others
Comes back into our own.
-- Edwin Markham
- Energy abounds when you volunteer -- do it now.
-- Holly Stewart McMahon
- I want to thank and pay tribute to all of our volunteers -- those dedicated people who believe in all work and no pay
-- Robert Orben
- What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
-- Albert Pike
- The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
- You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late.
-- Proverb
- Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good actions; try to use ordinary situations.
-- Jean Paul Richer
- The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not the hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity.
-- George Bernard Shaw
- I do not know what your destiny will be, but the one thing I know: the only ones among you who will really be happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
-- Albert Schweitzer
- It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
-- Sydney Smith
- I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
-- Stephen Grellet (born Etienne de Grellet du Mabillier) (1773-1855)
- People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
-- Unknown
- Man is a special being and, if left to himself in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
-- Daniel Webster
- Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.
-- John Wesley, "Letters of John Wesley""
- There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
-- Edith Wharton
- No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
-- Woodrow Wilson
- That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
of kindness and of love.
-- William Wordsworth
Philanthropy and Giving
- Charity is a virtue of the heart. Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.
-- Joseph Addison
- People think that if they were right they would contribute to charities. My experience has been that if you don't start giving away your money when you have very little, you won't do it when you get a lot.
-- Robert Bainum
- It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than it is to earn it in the first place.
-- Andrew Carnegie
- Continually give, continually gain.
-- Chinese proverb
- We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill
- It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
-- Albert Einstein
- The act of philanthropy is a spiritual act, an expression of caring for one's fellow human beings. It is a belief in the future and that the future can be good. It is investing in that future. It is helping to make the dream come true.
-- Arthur Frantzreb
- The word philanthropy has its roots in the Greek language meaning "love for mankind." It was never meant to apply only to donors of thousands or millions of dollars."
-- Arthur Frantzreb
- Charity sees the need, not the cause.
-- German proverb
- It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, thorough understanding.
-- Kahlil Gibran
- The main problem is not the haves and the have-nots -- it's the give-nots.
-- Arnold Glasow
- If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
-- Bob Hope
- Do your givin' while you're livin'... then you'll be knowin' where it's goin'.
-- Ann Landers
- He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
-- Lao-Tzu
- I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble.
-- Mennonite proverb
- To keep a lamp burning, we have to put oil in it.
-- Mother Teresa
- Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
-- Scottish proverb
- He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- By always taking out and never putting in, the bottom is soon reached.
-- Spanish proverb
- True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg
- Charity begins at home and generally dies from lack of outdoor exercise.
-- Unknown
- Real charity doesn't care if it's tax deductible or not.
-- Unknown
- If you are not poor enough to take charity, you are rich enough to give it.
-- Unknown
- Charity and pride have different aims, yet both feed the poor.
-- Unknown
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