Best 40 quotes in «volunteering quotes» category

After staring at the poor in the eyes, my thoughts on how best to help people have dramatically changed.

A willing spirit, diligently perform the sacred duty.

Do everything with love.

I ended up in the back seat of a chicken truck’s cab heading through beautiful scenery and disastrous roads to my hotel. About an hour later, we stopped to sell a few hundred of the chickens to a butcher shop.

Everyone breathing is broken. Keep breathing light into them until the stained glass collage takes your breath away.

Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.

I am seventy-five years old and I reached this venerable state by staying out of trouble, keeping my mouth shut and not volunteering, just like I learned in the Army.

At a time when so many people are just checking things off a bucket list, other travelers are finding that they want more. Going Local explores the whys and how to’s of really experiencing an area and its culture through the people who live there. Includes a plethora of real life travel stories from experts and everyday people alike.

He didn’t imagine hockey was a very likely career for any of them—they weren’t even playing on skates—but if they could just believe in something... In themselves, a little bit, in the world giving them a chance, in other people being worth getting to know… If he could, somehow, offer them that much. Or even if all he did was make their week better. Hell, he’d take making their day a little less worse. It’d make him happy too and joy wasn’t something to be squandered.

If walking into the responsibility of caring for eighteen children was difficult, walking out on that responsibility was almost impossible. The children had become a constant presence, little spinning tops that splattered joy onto everyone they bumped into.

I devote my life in service of humanity.

I now rejoice in my service to others and make best use of my skills and abilities to help others. I now open to light, receive the light, and share the light, for one and all.

May God give you overflowing grace for every good work.

If every citizen should recite their national anthem daily, you will develop love to serve your country better.

If we understand we need each other, we will keep together.

I shall honour God in my heart. And expressed it in humility of a humble service to humanity.

May God give you the grace to do many good deeds.

Meandering cows, tenacious bicyclers, belching taxis, rickshaws, fearless pedestrians and the occasional mobile ‘cigarette and sweets’ stand all fought our taxi for room on the narrow two-lane road turned local byway.

Our ancestors did great work for humanity. What will we do for the next generations?

No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called its feeling for its home place “biocentric” or “anthropocentric.” None has ever thought of its connection to its home place as “ecological,” deep or shallow. The concepts and insights of the ecologists are of great usefulness in our predicament, and we can hardly escape the need to speak of “ecology” and “ecosystems.” But the terms themselves are culturally sterile. They come from the juiceless, abstract intellectuality of the universities which was invented to disconnect, displace, and disembody the mind. The real names of the environment are the names of rivers and river valleys; creeks, ridges, and mountains; towns and cities; lakes, woodlands, lanes roads, creatures, and people. And the real name of our connection to this everywhere different and differently named earth is “work.” We are connected by work even to the places where we don’t work, for all places are connected; it is clear by now that we cannot exempt one place from our ruin of another. The name of our proper connection to the earth is “good work,” for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of its materials; it honors the place where it is done; it honors the art by which it is done; it honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing. Good work is always modestly scaled, for it cannot ignore either the nature of individual places or the differences between places, and it always involves a sort of religious humility, for not everything is known. Good work can be defined only in particularity, for it must be defined a little differently for every one of the places and every one of the workers on the earth. The name of our present society’s connection to the earth is “bad work” – work that is only generally and crudely defined, that enacts a dependence that is ill understood, that enacts no affection and gives no honor. Every one of us is to some extent guilty of this bad work. This guilt does not mean that we must indulge in a lot of breast-beating and confession; it means only that there is much good work to be done by every one of us and that we must begin to do it.

She wondered if it counted as being good if you did the good thing for purely selfish reasons. Probably not, but who cared. What was important was what you did, not how you felt.

Serve in the grace of strength within thy soul.

Our deeds and actions can change the heart of men.

The opportunity to serve is everywhere if the heart is seeking and there is a willingness to take action.

Spirit flow through me, as I serve mankind and connect with the eternal oneness of us all.

Today, spend a little time cultivating relationships offline. Never forget that everybody isn't on social media.

The more we give, the more we are blessed to keep giving.

The better we serve, the greater the fulfilment.

Voluntary cooperation is more than mechanical execution, where people do only what it takes to get by. It involves going beyond the call of duty, wherein individuals exert energy and initiative to the best of their abilities—even subordinating personal self-interest—to execute resulting strategies.

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. About one-quarter of Americans volunteer, and of those, a third volunteer for more than a hundred hours each year.

Walk your own path and be yourself

Those that give hope will never despair.

We can get the task done without being paid.

Work while you have strength.

Your actions now, define possibilities.

Try going out of your comfort zone and doing something for someone else.

We are a blessing to each other.

We live life not only for ourselves but for others.

Whatever is within your limit, do it to lift the souls of humankind.

You don't have to be a billionaire to believe you can make a difference. Give your resources to a charity and volunteer in your community.