Volunteerism And Service Quotes

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

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

Service is the rent we pay for living.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do … let me do it now.

The harder I work the more I live.

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.

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

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it’s much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.