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Beyond Just Words! 502 Inspirational Quotes for Those Who Serve
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Beyond Just Words! 502 Inspirational Quotes for Those Who Serve
Compiled by Judy Esmond, Ph.D.
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Life is an exciting business and most exciting when it is lived for others.
Helen Keller
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When people care for you they can straighten out your soul.
Langston Hughes
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What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.
Theodore Roethke
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Volunteers are not paid because they are worthless, but because they are priceless.
Anonymous
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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
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it
isn’t.
Richard Bach
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the
world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they
should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies
within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What we do for ourselves dies with us – what we do for others remains and is
immortal.
Albert Pike
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They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them
feel.
Carl W. Buechner
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King Jr
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Give the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you.
Madeline Bridges
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the
support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
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Peace we want because there is another war to fight; against poverty and disease.
Indira Gandhi
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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things
for other people.
Dick Gregory
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Some people come into our lives, make footprints on our hearts, and we are never,
ever the same.
Anonymous
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It’s no use in saying “we are doing our best”. You have got to succeed in doing
what is necessary.
Sir Winston Churchill
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It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Confucius
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The only thing that matters is how you touch people. Have I given anyone insight?
That’s what I want to have done. Insight lasts - theories don't.
Peter Drucker
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Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed - there is so little
competition!
Elbert Hubbard
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Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
John W. Gardner
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Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you
have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service,
love, sacrifice and courage.
St. Francis of Assisi
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Stand for something - have passion and compassion for something larger than
yourself. Care greater and deeper about others.
Jerold Panas
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The impact of someone’s life is determined by how many lives that it impacts.
Jackie Robinson
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All Eagles were born to soar. It is why we were created. Our power, however,
comes not from what we can see, it is in the unseen. It is the wind, not our wings,
that lifts us to the high places. It is our vision, not our eyes, that makes us rulers of
the skies. But, above all these, it is our spirit, not our speed, that leads us to be
strong and free.
David McNally
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Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual
gifts.
Plato
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That best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of
kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth
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There is never a traffic jam when you go the extra mile.
Anonymous
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Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
Charles Caleb Colton
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I believe in daring to be different - if different means looking up rather than putting
down, in helping rather than hurting. I'll be as different as I can.
Denis Waitley
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I have never given deep thought to a philosophy of life though I have a few ideas
that I think are useful to me: Do whatever comes your way as well as you can.
Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about other
people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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We lead by being human. We do not lead by being corporate, professional or
institutional. Paul Hawken
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
B.C. Forbes
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I slept, and I dreamt that life was all joy. I woke, and saw that life was but service.
I served, and discovered that service was joy.
Rabindranath Tagore
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The only certain happiness in life is to live for others.
Leo Tolstoy
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There are two things people want more than sex and money…recognition and
praise.
Mary Kay Ash
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Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Bibesco
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The surest cure for loneliness, the quickest way to happiness, is found in this, a
simple creed: Go serve someone in greater need.
William Arthur Ward
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You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have
really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
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No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the
credit for doing it.
Andrew Carnegie
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Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
James Barrie
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You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people to get what they want!
Zig Ziglar
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Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold Glasgow
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The distance between you and your dreams is often the length of a single idea.
Vic Conant
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Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and departing,
leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little
things…I am tempted to think…there are no little things.
Bruce Barton
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Only the soul that loves is happy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do
that, but the really great make you feel that you too, can become great.
Mark Twain
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The team that makes the most mistakes will probably win. The doer makes
mistakes, and I want doers on my team, players who make things happen.
John Wooden
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran
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The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat,
known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the
depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of
life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.
Beautiful people do not just happen.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
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In proportion, as one loses himself in (a great cause)…in the same degree does he
get the highest happiness out of his work.
Booker T. Washington
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Life is too short to be small.
Benjamin Disraeli
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The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
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We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather
than with one great breakthrough.
Rabbi Harold Kushner
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There isn’t anything that can’t be accomplished when the right people are swept up
in a worthy cause, divorced from who gets credit for what.
Norman Vincent Peale
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We cannot do great things on this earth. We can only do little things with great
love.
Mother Theresa
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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
Lady Bird Johnson
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The education of the heart is vital. We must have a sense of caring for one another
because the destruction of your enemy is the destruction of yourself. Our way of
life is so interconnected.
The Dalai Lama
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Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Richard Wagner
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We don’t believe in miracles - we rely on them.
Anonymous
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Love does not consist of gazing at each other but in looking together in the same
direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they
become by it.
John Ruskin
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The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a
revolution which has to start with each one of us?
Dorothy Day
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea
whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill
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When you are labouring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for
yourself.
Confucius
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Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part
of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and above all,
committed person.
Tom Peters
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Marie Curie
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James
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If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely right.
Anonymous
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You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face, and show the world
all the love in your heart.
Carole King
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An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.
David Augsburger
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It is impossible to be the best we can in isolation.
Paula P. Brownlee
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Enthusiasm is contagious. Start an epidemic.
Don Ward
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is
faced.
James Baldwin
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Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do.
Elias L. Magoon
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The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood.
The best way to understand people is to listen to them.
Ralph Nichols
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The past cannot be changed; the future is still in your power.
Hugh White
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It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw
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Live your life so your children can tell their children that you not only stood for
something wonderful - you acted on it.
Dan Zadra
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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young
and old, shared a little of what he is good at doing.
Quincy Jones
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We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our
automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.
Martin Luther King Jr
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You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say,
“I’m proud of what I am and who I am, and I’m just going to be myself”.
Mariah Carey
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Do a good deed every day. A good deed is one that brings a smile of joy to the face
of another.
Mohammed
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Volunteering can be an exciting, growing, enjoyable experience. It is truly
gratifying to serve a cause, practice one’s ideals, work with people, solve problems,
see benefits, and know one had a hand in them.
Harriet Naylor
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When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - its apathy.
Leo Buscaglia
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The spirit of voluntarism and generous individual giving must continue to be the
special virtue we exhibit. In that spirit will be found life’s finest experiences.
Winfield C. Dunn
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The act of volunteering is an assertion of individual worth.
Edward C. Linderman
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One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
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I slept and dreamed that life was happiness. I awoke and saw that life was service. I
served and found that in service happiness is found.
Rabindranath Tagore
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is
the greatest creed.
Albert Schweitzer
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In class, we study the big questions. At the homeless shelter, we live the big
questions.
Elaine Rankin
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But where was I to start? The world is so vast; I shall start with the country I knew
best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But
my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my
family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
Elie Wiesel
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My life is my message.
Mahatma Gandhi
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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most
into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our
supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
B.C. Forbes
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Gratitude is not only the greatest virtue but the mother of all the rest.
Cicero
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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions
performed by private citizens.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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When folks have allotted themselves a task and work together in unison, they
escape unhappiness.
Emile Zola
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Our nation will succeed or fail to the degree that all of us - citizens and businesses
alike - are active participants in building strong, sustainable and enriching
communities.
Arnold Hiatt
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Volunteerism is vital in all times; it keeps our communities alive…and will make a
difference in the lives of those who will come after us.
Clifton Taulbert
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The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice
something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
Gaylord Nelson
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
James Thurber
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Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George
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There is no greater happiness than that which comes from sharing…no greater joy
than that which comes from loving, giving and caring.
Anonymous
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Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
Benjamin Franklin
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not
attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
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We should all be concerned about the future, because we will have to spend the rest
of our lives there.
C.F. Kettering
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Six essential qualities that are the key to success: sincerity, personal integrity,
humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
William Menninger
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When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask,
“Compared to what?”
Sydney J. Harris
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Time is not measured by the years that we live. But by the deeds that we do and the
joys that we give.
Helen Steiner Rice
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
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It just seems to me that as long as we are both here, it's pretty clear that the struggle
is to share the planet, rather than divide it.
Alice Walker
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People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are
quite surprised to have done them.
Bernard de Fontenelle
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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
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Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion
with which it was made has passed.
Brian Tracy
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Every person can make a difference, and every person should try.
John F. Kennedy
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Nothing in the world is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
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For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to
believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.
Maya Angelou
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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and
triumph; a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.
Anonymous
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Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty and self-respect are the qualities
which make a real gentleman or lady.
Thomas Huxley
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Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have
deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the
will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Muhammad Ali
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I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg
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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person
with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs
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‘Tis the human touch in this world that counts, the touch of your hand and mine.
Spencer Michael Free
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies
clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
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How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment: we can start now, start slowly
changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make a
contribution toward introducing justice straightaway!
Anne Frank
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When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John W. Gardner
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As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they
would rather serve with their money than with their persons, the State is not far
from its fall.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we’ve emphasized the
reward instead of the service.
Harry S. Truman
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much
agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot
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One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson
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To me every relationship is special and provides a chance to help someone. I like to
feel that I am helping people.
Barbara Cotrell
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If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment.
Anonymous
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We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who
know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so
much to give but never get the opportunity.
Dorothy Height
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I am wealthy in my friends.
William Shakespeare
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Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins
for two weeks.
Sioux Indian Prayer
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Not only does community service allow each of us to grow personally, it enables us
to reach out to others and break through the barriers of traditional stereotypes. Our
society can only thrive when we emphasize the importance of serving one another.
Anna M. Vacca
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Democracy cannot be saved by superman, but only by the unswerving devotion
and goodness of millions of little men.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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My world is composed of takers and givers. The takers may eat better but the
givers sleep better.
Byron Frederick
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We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with
them.
Abigail Adams
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We have a long, long way to go. So let us hasten along the road, the road of human
tenderness and generosity. Groping, we may find one another's hands in the dark.
Emily Greene Balch
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Leaders are the ones with vision, who inspire others and cause them to galvanize
their efforts and achieve change. Managers, on the other hand, will follow standard
operating procedure to the grave.
Warren Bennis
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I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love.
Leo Tolstoy
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All for love and nothing for reward.
Edmund Spenser
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We create our lives a thought at a time. And sometimes, it comes down to changing
a thought such as “Why did this happen to me?” into “There is a divine plan and
there is a reason for this, and my choice is to create the most positive reaction I
can”.
Dee Wallace Stone
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We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip
ourselves over and let the Beautiful Stuff out.
Ray Bradbury
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Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but
like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and
following them, you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz
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The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
David Starr Jordan
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Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over
everything you do.
Elvis Presley
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One more good man on earth is better than an extra angel in heaven.
Chinese Proverb
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
John Ortberg
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Live every day like it’s your last, ‘cause one day you’re gonna be right.
Ray Charles
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Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
Socrates
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too
late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To feel good about yourself do this…start giving. Give yourself to someone in
some service that you do not need to give. Just let yourself flow out to people. This
will make you feel awfully good about yourself.
Norman Vincent Peale
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To have joy one must share it.
Lord Byron
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We who lived in the concentration camps can remember those who walked through
the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have
been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that every thing can be taken
from a human being but one thing - the last of our freedoms - to choose our spirit in
any given set of circumstances.
Victor Frankl
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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
Anonymous
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I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
Jonas Salk
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you
often get it.
W. Somerset Maughan
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I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I
want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman
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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work
worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
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You grow up the day you have your first real laugh – at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore
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There should be less talk…What do you do then? Take a broom and clean
someone's house. That says enough.
Mother Theresa
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If you plant two plants close together, the roots co-mingle and improve the quality
of the soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you
put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more than the total weight
held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus
one equals three.
Stephen Covey
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In nothing do men more nearly approach the Gods, than be doing good for their
fellow man.
Cicero
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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people's hands, people
used to be sort of shocked because they'd never seen this before. To me, it was
quite normal.
Princess Diana
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The most powerful motivational force in the world is a cause.
David McNally
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It marks a big step in a man’s development when he comes to realize that other
men can be called in to help him do a better job than he can do alone.
Andrew Carnegie
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The rule in the monastery was not, “Do not speak,” but, “Do not speak unless you
can improve on the silence”.
Anthony de Mello
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Life is not a ‘brief candle’. It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as
brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up
of little things.
Frank A. Clark
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All men dream but not equally. There are those who dream at night reaching into
the dark recesses of their mind to wake in the morning and find it was vanity. But
the truly courageous are those who dream during the day with their eyes wide
open, for they can make their dreams come true.
T.E. Lawrence
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Half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness. They think it
consists in having and getting, and in being served by others. It consists in giving
and in serving others.
Henry Drummond
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When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars.
Lee Salk
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There are two kinds of people in the world - those who are always getting ready to
do something, and those who go ahead and do it.
Elbert Hubbard
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The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to
society.
Aristotle
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Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are
incomparable.
Brenda Ueland
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We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King Jr
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I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do
something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
Helen Keller
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Somebody said it couldn’t be done; he with a chuckle replied that maybe it
couldn’t, but he would be one who wouldn’t say so until he’d tried.
Edgar A. Guest
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When you know, to know that you know, and when you do not know, to know that
you do not know, that is knowledge.
Confucius
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The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is, to
living...and the man who misses this truth misses the greatest joy and satisfaction
that come into his life - service to others.
Edward Bok
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38
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the
end.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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A hug is a perfect gift – one size fits all, and nobody minds if you exchange it.
Ivern Ball
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When asked by a prospective donor how much he should give, the best reply is,
“Give until you are proud”.
Paul Ireland
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The human spirit is nurtured by praise, as much as a seedling is nurtured by the
soil, the water and the sun.
Mario Fernandez
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Walk in the shoes of a giver and you will find the pathway to joyful living.
Douglas M. Lawson
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The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.
Hannah Arendt
39
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 you ever can.
John Wesley
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Everybody lights up a room. Some when they enter…some when they leave.
Burke Hedges
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Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
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We receive but what we give.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Go to the people. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build
on what they have. But of the best leaders, when their task is accomplished, their
work is done, the people will remark: we have done it ourselves.
Lao-Tse
40
The one piece of advice which, I believe, will contribute more to making you a
better leader is that you must care.
Melvin Zais
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No person excels in relationships without the help and support of others.
Robert Wendover
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The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them to the
impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
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You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.
Harvey Firestone
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Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably
desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities that make us
human emerge only in the ways we relate to other people.
Rabbi Harold Kushner
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41
If I were asked what is the best thing one can expect in life, I would say - the
privilege of being useful.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington
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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow Wilson
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The greatest good we can do for others is not just to share our riches with them, but
to reveal theirs.
Zig Ziglar
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The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn in unconditional love, which includes
not only others but ourselves as well.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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A life devoid of service to others is a life devoid of meaning.
Marianne Williamson
42
I would rather men should ask why no statue has been erected in my honor, than
why one has.
Marcus Porciuscato
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Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
Anne O’Hare McCormick
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow is, let there be truth between us
two forevermore.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business life.
Samuel Johnson
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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You’ve got to think about ‘big things’ while you’re doing small things so that all
the small things go in the right direction.
Alvin Toffler
43
How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what
purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that
we exist for other people, first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own
happiness depends.
Albert Einstein
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I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really
good at heart.
Anne Frank
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If your life has been enriched by love, once or more than once…the memory of
it…never leaves you.
Olivia de Havilland
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The ratio of ‘We’s’ to ‘I’s’ is the best indicator of the development of a team.
Lewis D. Eigen
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Good thoughts not delivered mean squat.
Kenneth Blanchard
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44
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the
weak and the strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver
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Success comes before teamwork only in the dictionary.
Anonymous
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When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can
do.
Charles M Schwab
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot, the courage to change the
things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
The Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Neibuhr
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45
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.
Malcolm S. Forbes
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Real generosity to the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus
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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what
he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while
they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Love has more force than a besieging army.
Mahatma Gandhi
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end
of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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46
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown again into flames by an encounter with
another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have
rekindled this inner light.
Albert Schweitzer
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People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who
watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.
Nicholas Murray Butler
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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for
there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Seneca
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Our early emphasis on human relations was not motivated by altruism but by the
simple belief that if we respected our people and helped them respect themselves,
the company would make the most profit
Thomas J. Watson
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We grow old as soon as we cease to love and trust.
Louise Honorine de Choiseul
47
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 verbs agree to
serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King Jr
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When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
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My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the
work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there
is much less competition.
Indira Gandhi
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I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.
Pablo Picasso
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal
them their own.
Benjamin Disraeli
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48
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and
don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless
immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Love in any language, straight from the heart, pulls us all together, never apart.
Sandi Patti
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There is no greater commitment than when people give of themselves. Volunteer
activity is the ultimate demonstration of caring.
John W. Amerman
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An idea can turn into dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
William Bernbach
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but
eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however,
it lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong
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49
There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of a people. There is no idea so
uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.
Woodrow Wilson
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If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound
ourselves.
Thomas Edison
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It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney
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Volunteering can provide a space and a place for every citizen - regardless of their
gender, age, background, race, religion, knowledge or skills - everyone can make a
contribution, and in the process learn and personally benefit from the experience.
John May
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Living is the art of loving,
Loving is the art of caring,
Caring is the art of sharing,
Sharing is the art of living.
Anonymous
50
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not
something you do in your spare time.
Marion Wright Edelman
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Through an awakened spirit we find the place where meaning grows; we commit to
work, vision and life with purpose.
Marilyn Mason
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It gives me a great deal of pleasure to be part of making a difference in people's
lives. It's a powerfully warm feeling to contribute to someone else's welfare.
Red McCombs
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If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of
encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things
begin to happen.
Loretta Girzartis
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Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Robert Schuller
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51
Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn
out.
John Wooden
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Life is nothing without friendship.
Cicero
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Unless your department has a budget infinitely greater than most, you will not get
rich being a volunteer director/coordinator, but your life will be indescribably
enriched by the people you meet and work with. A wise lady once told me that
when you find your ideal job, you will do it for less than they pay you and when
you find your calling you will do it for free. This is my ideal job. I hope you find
yours.
Martin Tichenor
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It is in giving oneself that one receives.
St. Francis of Assisi
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Don't try to be a great person, just try to be a good person. And if you can succeed
at being a good person, then you have found greatness.
Don Heitkamp
52
Volunteering is my social life; it's my civic life. It keeps me young and going.
Ruth Altshuler
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Make yourself necessary to someone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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These are indeed grave times, difficult times, complex times, for your institution.
But there have never been more opportunities. And there has never been a more
exciting time to be a volunteer for a good cause.
Jerold Panas
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The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the
environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine
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To me, success is not something to be measured in power or fortune or fame. I
believe a life of service to others is a successful life.
Gerald R. Ford
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53
One person can make a difference. You don’t have to be a big shot. You don’t
have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in your power to change
things.
Norman Vincent Peale
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What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no
government program, however well-meaning and well-executed, can deliver.
Edward James Olmos
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Why is it that people always need love and understanding the most at a time when
they probably deserve it the least?
Lou Holtz
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in
spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve
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54
You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments that stand out, the
moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things
in a spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
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All work is empty save when there is love.
Kahlil Gibran
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I have tried to live my life as my mother would have wished. She taught me as a
boy that service is the highest duty in the world. I believed her then, and I believe
her now. I have tried to follow her teaching.
Henry Ford
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The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned
into momentum.
Frances Willard
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The best thing to do behind a friend's back is to pat it!
Ruth Loudermilk Brillhart
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55
Genuine change is never a function of dominance, or even education, but of
empathy and common ground.
Alan Briskin
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There exists within all of us a longing to leave a legacy. We need to know that our
lives are important, that our being here matters.
David McNally
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There is no greater joy than giving to worthy causes.
Ted Turner
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To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe in and act on it
with all your heart.
Christy Borgeld
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Citizens, you are all brothers, yet God has framed you differently.
Plato
56
Volunteering, there's nothing like it! You wake up in the morning with a smile on
your face, and go to bed happy.
Marc Buoniconti
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It is in serving our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find
the true meaning of life.
Jesse Jackson
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The idea of one common humanity, of the basic dignity and worth of all persons
without exception, has been the inspiration for countless legions to give of
themselves in service to others.
Rosemary Higgins Cass
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The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome
their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.
Brian Tracy
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The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction
we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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57
We are what we repeatedly do.
Aristotle
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Our nation became great not because of what the government did, but because of
what its people did. We can't just keep asking, “What's the government going to
do?” Money helps but people solve problems.
George Romney
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
Vernone E. Jordan Jr
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that
end each of use must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a
general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to
whom we think we can be most useful.
Marie Curie
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but
among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W.H. Auden
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58
I thought someone should do something, then I realized that I was someone.
John F. Kennedy
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So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping
yourself, the other for helping others.
Audrey Hepburn
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What is love? Love is when you care more about someone else than you care about
yourself.
George Akers
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Be kind and generous everyday and volunteer, it is good for the soul.
Anonymous
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59
Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same
wound himself.
Thomas Jefferson
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When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Maya Angelou
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If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.
Dolores Huerta
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I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it’s only a choice of attitude.
Judith M. Knowlton
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People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting
alone could ever hope to bring about.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
60
One of the reasons our society has become such a mess is that we’re isolated from
each other.
Maggie Kuhn
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Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling
waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it is good only for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening
ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the
potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and
convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr
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The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Albert Einstein
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61
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
Larry Eisenberg
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We come into this world crying while all around us are smiling. May we so live
that we go out of this world smiling while everybody around us is weeping.
Persian Proverb
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The sequence to success is to reimagine the world, reengineer the process, and,
then use information systems to glue it all together. Sometimes new ideas can be a
little cloudy. You have to believe that things can be done, even if you don't know
exactly how it will work.
Dennis Colard
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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbour.
Danish Proverb
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Big people monopolize the listening. Small people monopolize the talking.
David Schwartz
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62
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger,
misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its
sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our
understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.
Dorothy Thompson
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The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious, and may
revolutionize a whole town.
Eleanor H. Porter
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
John Dryden
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A thread of purpose should run through our lives so that something of significance
will link the years together.
Stanley J. Weyman
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Every living thing has a need of other living things - they depend upon and are
depended upon.
Winston B. Abbot
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63
Through community volunteerism, young people can gain experiences that build
leadership skills - the ability to realize a vision, engage and develop others, and
make things happen.
Thomas A. Page
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When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
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Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to
direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel
that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Andrew Carnegie
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the
eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Treat people as though they were what they ought to be and you help them become
what they are capable of being.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
64
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Help me to take the time to be,
An understanding friend,
To someone who needs a helping hand,
On which they can depend.
Vera Beall Parker
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Three billion people on the face of the earth go to bed hungry every night, but four
billion people go to bed every night hungry for a simple word of encouragement
and recognition.
Cavett Robert
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The measure of life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Peter Marshall
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Life's persistent and most urgent question is, “What are you doing for others?”
Anonymous
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65
Work hard, play hard, serve hard, and don't forget to love one another.
T. Scott Gross
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Service to others is the essence of leadership, and it is an essential aspect to living
to one's fullest potential.
Thomas W. Jones
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Your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion -
these are the things that count in life.
Scott O'Grady
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Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
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Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Napoleon Hill
66
Philanthropy is the rent we pay for the joy and privilege we have for our
space on this earth.
Jerold Panas
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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and
succeed.
Robert Schuller
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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that
something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton
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The life that will be preserved is the life that is freely given in service to God and
man.
Ellen G. White
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The journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step.
Lao-Tzu
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67
The most enthusiastic givers in life are the real lovers of life. They experience the
soul-joy that comes from responding with the heart rather than the head.
Helen Steiner Rice
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It is a rare and high privilege to be in a position to help people understand the
differences that they can make not only in their own lives but in the lives of others
by simply giving of themselves.
Helen Boosalis
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You are accountable for what you do, and no one else is accountable.
Edith Martin
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Every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, “Make
me feel important”. If you can do that, you’ll be a success not only in business but
in life as well.
Mary Kay Ash
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If at first you don’t succeed - try, try again. Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it
as timed-release success.
Robert Orben
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68
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore
me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
William Arthur Ward
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The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.
Leo Tolstoy
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Wealth, position, fame, and even elusive happiness will be mine, eventually, if I
determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to
render.
Og Mandino
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Caring must strengthen into commitment and commitment into action if we are to
preserve and nurture one of the greatest forces for rebirth and renewal this nation
has…voluntarism.
Marlene Wilson
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Too much has been said of the heroes of history - the strong men, the troublesome
men; too little of the amiable, the kindly and the tolerant.
Stephen Leacock
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69
To care for another person in the most significant sense is to help him grow and
actualize himself.
Milton Mayeroff
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Others!
William Booth
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We seldom stop to think how many people’s lives are entwined with our own. It is
a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or
can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.
Ivy Baker Priest
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to
let them know that you trust them.
Booker T. Washington
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Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill
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70
When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it’s time to
turn out the lights.
George Burns
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The rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous
advantage. He has little competition.
Dale Carnegie
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Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the
blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill
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Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better
and happier.
Mother Theresa
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To be a good volunteer takes faith and then the willingness to act on that faith. We
must have faith in people, in ourselves, in the spiritual resources that exist in each
person.
Arthur B. Langlie
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71
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Albert Einstein
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No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
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Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph
of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The way not to live a monotonous life is to live for others.
Fulton J. Sheen
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I want you to say that I tried to love and serve humanity. I won’t have the fine and
luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want a committed life to leave
behind.
Martin Luther King Jr
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72
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave
footprints in your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our minds
to the unexplored worlds occupied by the needs of others.
Barbara Hand Herrera
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My heart is ever at your service.
William Shakespeare
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The volunteer has become a major force in our lives…because it is not possible for
a man to live separated from others. We are involved in each other’s lives, not by
choice but by necessity.
Nils Schweizer
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Become a “possibilitarian”. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are,
raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they are always
there.
Norman Vincent Peale
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73
As much of Heaven is visible as we have eyes to see.
William Winter
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We’re put on this earth not to see through each other but to see each other through.
Anonymous
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I prefer death to lassitude. I never tire of serving others.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Volunteering: A noble thought turned into action.
Manuel Arango
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Throughout my life, I’ve seen the difference that volunteering efforts can make in
people’s lives. I know the personal value of service as a local volunteer.
Jimmy Carter
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Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more
than criticize.
Anonymous
74
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from
within. It is there all the time.
Anna Freud
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The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but
that it is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Volunteering creates a national character in which the community and the nation
take on a spirit of compassion, comradeship, and confidence.
Brian O’Connell
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How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless
we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than
receiving.
James Cash Penny
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75
My hope still is to leave this world a little better for my being here.
Jim Henson
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The world cannot always understand one’s profession of faith, but it can
understand service.
Ian MacLaren
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A successful team beats with one heart.
Anonymous
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What separates those who achieve from those who do not is in direct proportion to
one's ability to ask for help.
Donald Keough
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There never was a person who did anything worth doing that did not receive more
than he gave.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The miracle is this…the more we share, the more we have.
Leonard Nimoy
76
Whatever good there is in the world I inherit from the courage and work of those
who went before me. I, in turn, have a responsibility to make things better for those
who will inherit the world from me.
Arthur Dobrin
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Tap into people’s dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they
won’t lift a finger.
Thomas Friedman
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Each one of us can work for a small change in the world around us.
Lamar S. Smith
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A community is like a ship - everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Henrik Ibsen
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So, as the power of the nation state declines and government services are
withdrawn, cut back, targeted only to those most in need, it is very likely
that civic life, the core of voluntary activities, will increase, not decrease,
because people will still want the best for themselves and will volunteer for
work that will make their communities better places to live in.
Don Edgar
77
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens
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If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
Milton Berle
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It is difficult for any of us to go through life without either increasing or
diminishing somebody’s happiness.
Anonymous
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There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
John Andrew Holmes
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
78
The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
Horace Mann
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A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees
the same glass as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts
looking for someone who might be thirsty.
G. Donald Gale
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Love is a little word; people make it big.
Anonymous
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If you haven’t any charity in your heart you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Bob Hope
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Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.
Jess Lair
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
79
No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it
provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Ronald Reagan
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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our
friends.
Martin Luther King Jr
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais Nin
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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
Louise L. Hay
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Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp. Or what’s a heaven for?
Robert Browning
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The words take on their true meaning when we see them as verbs more than nouns:
volunteer, love, God.
Sue Vineyard
80
Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together
is success.
Henry Ford
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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to cause outside his
own individual, selfish satisfaction.
Benjamin Spock
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Though government has an important role to play in meeting the many challenges
that remain before us, we are coming to understand that no organization, including
government, will fully succeed without the active participation of each of us.
Volunteers are vital to enabling this country to live up to the true promise of its
heritage.
Bill Clinton
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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is “thank you”, that would
suffice.
Meister Eckhart-More
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Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge
and dares to forgive an injury.
Edward Chapin
81
The happiest people are those who care more about others than they do about
themselves.
Ted Turner
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It isn’t a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.
Anthony Weston
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It’s not the difference between people that’s the difficulty. It’s the indifference.
Anonymous
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Collectively we can do what no person can do singly.
Leland Kaiser
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We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our
enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.
Charles M Schwab
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The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.
Marie de Vichy-Chamrond
82
A difference, to be a difference, must make a difference.
Gertrude Stein
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You’ve got to believe deep inside yourself that you’re destined to do great things.
Joe Paterno
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It is only when we harness the power of our collective consciousness that we can
rid ourselves of the horrible things in this world that we presently accept as just the
way things are.
Marianne Williamson
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. Make big plans, aim
high in hope and work.
Daniel H. Burnham
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83
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you
the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman
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We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland
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What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert Fuller
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I early found that when I worked for myself alone, others alone worked for me, but
when I worked for others also, others also worked for me.
Benjamin Franklin
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller
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There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we
are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
Rusty Berkus
84
Vision without action is merely a dream.
Action without vision just passes the time.
Vision with action can change the world.
Joel Barker
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I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little
better for my having lived in it.
Abraham Lincoln
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Every time we remember to say "thank you," we experience nothing less than
heaven on earth.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship.
Thomas Moore
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Life's truest happiness is found in friendships we make along the way.
Anonymous
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85
The purpose of life is not to be happy. The purpose of life is to matter, to be
productive, to have it make some difference that you live at all.
Leo Rosten
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Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.
Zig Ziglar
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Service is what life is all about.
Marian Wright Edelman
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To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted,
but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action.
Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will
for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or
action for the expression of gratitude.
Albert Schweitzer
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We can do noble acts without ruling earth and sea.
Aristotle
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86
Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a
ripple with no logical end.
Scott Adams
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Hope is a vigorous principle; it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man
to do his utmost. It makes a seeming impossibility give way.
Jeremy Collier
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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is
to make others so.
Robert G Ingersoll
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We fought hard. We gave it our best. We did what was right. And we made a
difference.
Geraldine Ferraro
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None of us has gotten where we are solely by pulling ourselves up from our own
bootstraps. We got here because somebody…bent down and helped us.
Thurgood Marshall
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87
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the others willing to let
them.
Robert Frost
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It doesn’t matter who or where you are, or how successful you become in a worldly
way…in a corporate board room, in a hospital operating theatre, setting public
policy, or managing your private life…you must care for other people.
Barbara Bush
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He has the right to criticise who has the heart to help.
Abraham Lincoln
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Self-esteem soars in direct proportion to our forgetting the ‘self’ part.
Lady Elleen Hartley-Wigginton
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Most of us will never do great things, but we can do small things in a great way.
Anonymous
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88
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.
It is obvious that man is himself a traveller; that the purpose of this world is not 'to
have and to hold' but 'to give and serve.
Sir Wilfred T. Grinfell
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Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.
Marilyn Vos Savant
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My future starts when I wake up every morning…Every day I find something
creative to do with my life.
Miles Davis
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All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don’t discover why. Success in life has
nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you
do for others.
Danny Thomas
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You can’t pursue happiness and catch it. Happiness comes upon you unaware
while you are helping others.
Anonymous
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89
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Les Brown
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In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine
fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how
much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we
are doing.
A.A. Milne
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Generosity is a principle - not an amount.
Millie Thornton
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In all people there are two sets of feelings: One is fear, the other is love. If there is
fear, then we shrink as a person. But love, wow! That can move mountains!
Jorgen Roed
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There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop
down and lift mankind a little higher.
Henry Van Dyke
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90
Philanthropy: A state of doing where the giving is easy.
Sheree Parris-Nudd
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Giving never moves in a straight line - it always moves in circles! It goes
round…and round…and round.
Robert H. Schuller
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In an ‘age of uncertainty’ we desperately need to develop our hopes - without hope,
without the idea that things can be better and should be different - we are left only
with despair.
John May
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In a world filled with violence, hatred, and suspicion, giving is an expression of
faith, trust, and concern.
Douglas Lawson
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You can dream, create, design, and build the most wonderful place in the
world…but it requires people to make the dream a reality.
Walt Disney
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91
To be a champion you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.
Sugar Ray Robinson
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot
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The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped
you.
John E. Southard
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Contentment comes when you know you've done something good for someone else,
and you're not expecting anything in return.
Bill Grosz
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Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined
by service-to yourself and to others.
Oprah Winfrey
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Leaders don’t force people to follow - they invite them on a journey.
Charles S Lauer
92
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work
you already did.
Newt Gingrich
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Donors don't give to institutions. They invest in ideas and people in whom they
believe.
G.T. Smith
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I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there can be any kindness I can
show, or any good things I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it now, and
not defer it or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
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The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.
Roy E. Moody
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To convert ideas and good intentions into something real and positive requires time
and perseverance.
Eugenio Mendoza
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93
We wildly underestimate the power of the tiniest personal touch.
Tom Peters
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Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college
degree.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing: Don’t live
entirely for yourself; live for other people.
Barbara Ward
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Giving pays the highest interest rate, and has the longest term, of any
investment available.
Jeffrey K. Wilson
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Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve,
make friends, and reach out for the best in life. Open hands open the way to
achievement. Put them to work today.
Wilfred Peterson
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94
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never
repay you.
John Bunyan
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to
elevate his life by conscious endeavour.
Henry David Thoreau
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You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
Doug Floyd
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The only thing we can never get enough of is love. And the only thing we never
give enough of is love.
Henry Miller
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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream
precedes the goal.
Pamela Vaull Starr
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95
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in
life -happiness, freedom, and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to
someone else.
Peyton Conway March
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What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only
thing of consequence is what we do.
John Ruskin
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Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities
simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Doris Lessing
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It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt
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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who
recognizes the challenge and does something about it.
Vince Lombardi
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96
Be considerate - you may need help yourself some day.
William Feather
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Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to
compromise.
Brian Tracy
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When you believe you can - you can!
Maxwell Maltz
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Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
Zig Ziglar
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao-Tzu
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
97
Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have
encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against
overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden
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Nobody has ever measured…how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
Anonymous
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May there always be work for your hands to do,
May your purse always hold a coin or two.
May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane,
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you,
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
Irish Blessing
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