Amazing Quotes to Ponder

I absolutely love quotes! I find them so inspiring and thought provoking. To that end, enjoy some of the following thoughts and quotes. Find one (or two or three!) that you can keep in your heart and pull out when you need it:

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

Here’s to all volunteers, those dedicated people who believe in all work and no pay. ~Robert Orben

Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain loving one another. ~Erma Bombeck

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. ~Albert Schweitzer

Those who can, do. Those who can do more, volunteer. ~Author Unknown

The world is hugged by the faithful arms of volunteers. ~Terri Guillemets

Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they’re priceless. ~Sherry Anderson

It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. ~Tom Brokaw

Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart. ~Elizabeth Andrew

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. ~Author Unknown

I’ve seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. ~Tracy Chapman

Volunteers are love in motion! ~Author Unknown

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. ~Author Unknown

Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ~Voltaire

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. ~Eric Hoffer

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. ~Oscar Wilde

Gratitude is the memory of the heart. ~Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from French

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain

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

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ~William James

The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering: Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good. ~Ivan Scheier

Help one another; there’s no time like the present and no present like the time. ~James Durst

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. ~Edward Everett Hale

Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something. ~Author Unknown

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson

Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year, but when you volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in. ~Author Unknown

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy. ~Knights of Pythagoras (Thanks, Jim)

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 Schweitzer

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

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 (Thanks, Carl)

Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have. ~Christopher Morley

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~Kahlil Gibran

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 your verb agree to serve…. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. ~Herman Melville

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ~Seneca

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns. ~Author Unknown

Real charity doesn’t care if it’s tax-deductible or not. ~Dan Bennett

Pass them on!