Quotes about volunteerism

Allow the way to your great work to be guided by your service to others.

Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own.

The heart of service is grace of belonging.

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.

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.

My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

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.

That churchgoers do the lion's share of the charitable work in our communities is simply untrue. They get credit for it because they do a better job of tying the good works they do to their creed. But according to a 1998 study, 82% of volunteerism by churchgoers falls under the rubric of "church maintenance" activities -- volunteerism entirely within, and for the benefit of, the church building and immediate church community. As a result of this siphoning of volunteer energy into the care and fe

Good deeds awaken the good spirit of every soul.

We will do the good work. It is our holy duty.

God has unlimited resources for every great work. Are you a willing spirit?

It is only love that fuels the spirit of great deeds.

Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness; a review of research by the Corporation for National and Community Service shows that those who aid the causes they value tend to be happier and in better health. They show fewer signs of physical and mental aging. And it's not just that helpful people also tend to be healthier and happier; helping others causes happiness. "Be selfless, if only for selfish reasons," as one of my happiness paradoxes holds

It's impossible to be involved in all situations, but there's no excuse not to be involved in something, somewhere, somehow, with someone. Make an ounce of difference.

Whenever we have opportunity to serve, we must serve with all our heart.

Do the good work, with the resources you have.

30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'd to it by compulsion.

The greatest part of our existence enfold in service of humanity.

Those who serve others will be served.

With or without payment, the work will be done.

Steve Thomas Rooney embraces a simple concept of providing a hand up versus a hand out to families in need. We are deeply grateful to volunteers, donors and other supporters around the world who help us with this life-changing work

Give what you possess.

We work in the best of our abilities.

It is better to serve than be served.

The beauty of life is sharing life.

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.

Serve one another with great humility.

Work with joy.

You must put all your heart into everything you do.

If you seek immortality, then give. For giving frees humanity from the bondage of time. When all is gone, what's left is what you gave.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity.