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You know, there's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit - the ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes; to see the world through the eyes of those who are different from us - the child who's hungry, the steelworker who's been laid-off, the family who lost the entire life they built together when the storm came to town. When you think like this - when you choose to broaden your ambit of concern and empathize with the plight of others, whether they are close friends or distant strangers - it becomes harder not to act; harder not to help.
-- Barack Obama
"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
We are all part of the human family and we should be about doing what all good families do - caring for our less fortunate brothers and sisters.
- Dan O'Neill, Founder, Mercy Corps
"My involvement with UNICEF is particularly important to me because it is UNICEF that introduced me to volunteerism, thereby helping me to set my own personal standard of contributing my time and giving back to others. Working on behalf of UNICEF‘s lifesaving efforts is one of my most valued roles."
-- Sarah Jessica Parker
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."
--Albert Pike"Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me."
-- Alexander Pope, The Universal Prayer, 1738"If you think the efforts of one individual will be nothing, then you have never been to bed with a mosquito".
~ Betty ReeseThere are two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we receive, and the larger kind we feel for what we give.
-- Edward Arlington Robinson"Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones."
-- Shalom Rokeach'No joy can equal the joy serving others.'
-- Sai Baba
I feel the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
-- Jonas Salk
* "To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems."
-- Susan Sarandon
"A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."
-- Albert Schweitzer* I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
-- Albert Schweitzer"It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good parent.' That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every person has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to realize his own true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who have need of a man's help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For, remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too."
-- -- Albert SchweitzerYou must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for which you get not pay but the privilege of doing it.
-- -- Albert Schweitzer"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."
-- Seneca
"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community... and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
-- George Bernard Shaw
* I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.
-- Martin Sheen
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
-- Dodie Smith
Quotes For Volunteers
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HERO PIX
Muhammad Ali | Bono | Marian Wright Edelman
Albert Einstein | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Mahatma Gandhi
Whoopi Goldberg | Audrey Hepburn | Thomas Jefferson
Martin Luther King, Jr. | Aung San Suu Kyi | Albert Schweitzer
Martin Sheen | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | Mother Teresa
Volunteer Day - December 5Martin Luther King Day of Service - 3rd Monday in January
