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Thank You, Volunteers!
Welcome to my page of quotations for volunteer appreciation. Volunteers: thank you for sharing your love with our communities and for being an inspiration to us all!
Well, certainly, it seems that an Officer of Volunteers has many responsibilities... all work and no pay... ~Punch, 1890
Some find their heroes 'mid the battle's strife;
The greatest heroes are in private life.
~Simeon Carter (1824–1911), Poems and Aphorisms: A Woodman's Musings, 1893
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls. ~David Thomas, as quoted in Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891
Volunteers are America's silent strength. Those who give of themselves in a spirit of unselfish devotion to the needs of others are truly this Nation's most generous, unsung heroes. ~William Arthur Ward (1921–1994)
Volunteers wear work-boots but leave a trail of angel footprints. ~Terri Guillemets
...we celebrate the selfless individuals around our country who channel their civic virtues through volunteerism... devoted to a cause bigger than themselves... Volunteers help drive our country's progress, and day in and day out, they make extraordinary sacrifices to expand promise and possibility. ~Barack Obama, Presidential Proclamation, National Volunteer Week, April 2016, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov
There are two ways of spreading light; to be
The candle or the mirror that reflects it.
~Edith Wharton, "Vesalius in Zante (1564)," Artemis to Actæon and Other Verse, 1909
The world is hugged by the faithful arms of volunteers. ~Terri Guillemets, "Helping freely," 2007
I can no other answer make but thanks,
And thanks; and ever thanks...
~William Shakespeare, Richard III, c.1592
...silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone... ~G. B. Stern, Robert Louis Stevenson: The Man Who Wrote 'Treasure Island,' 1954
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ~William Feather, The Business of Life, 1949
Each good deed strengthens our angel wings. ~Terri Guillemets
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G. K. Chesterton, A Short History of England, 1917
How beautiful a day can be
When kindness touches it!
~George Elliston, Cinderella Cargoes, 1929
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. ~Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965)
Not that which we give, but what we share,—
For the gift without the giver is bare...
~James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan proverb
Those humble, quiet, behind-the-scenes people are the reason anything ever gets done. ~Terri Guillemets
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
~William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, c.1596 [V, 1, Portia]
I am but one
But I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But I can do something.
What I can do I ought to do,
And what I ought to do,
God helping me, I will do.
~Anonymous, in The Standard, 1902
No man stands so straight as one who stoops to help a child. ~James J. Davis, c.1920s
In about the same degree as you are helpful you will be happy. ~Karl Reiland, "The Fashion of a Man," The World's Miracle, 1929
If the only prayer you say in your whole life is
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, 1860
Then said a rich man, Speak to us of Giving.
And he answered:
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
~Kahlil Gibran
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ~Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814–1880), "Address to the Young"
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden under ground, secretly making the ground green... ~Thomas Carlyle, "Varnhagen von Ense's Memoirs," 1838
For every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action... ~James Russell Lowell, "Rousseau and the Sentimentalists," 1867
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1940
There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life — reciprocity. ~Confucius
Have you had a kindness shown,
Pass it on.
’Twas not given for you alone,
Pass it on.
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another's tears...
Be a star in some one's sky,
He may live who else might die,
Pass it on.
~Rev. Henry Burton, "Pass It On," 1898
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~J. M. Barrie, A Window in Thrums, 1888
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