Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. H. Auden

Love each other or perish

Whoopi Goldberg

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.

Whoopi Goldberg

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

Voltaire

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

Walter Isaacson

It's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others.

Rick Warren

The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when they are good for other people as well they are thought virtuous: if he finds pleasure in helping others he is benevolent; if he finds pleasure in working for society he is public-spirited; but it is for your private pleasure that you give twopence to a beggar as much as it is for my private pleasure that I drink another whiskey and soda. I, less of a humbug than you, neither applaud myself for my pleasure nor demand your admiration.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

As we give of our time, talents and resources to tend the needs of the sick, offer food to the hungry and teach the dependent to stand on their own, we enrich ourselves spiritually beyond our ability to comprehend.

John C. Maxwell

If you want to improve your world, then focus your attention on helping others.

Neal A. Maxwell

True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only He can lead.

Mitt Romney

We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.

Barbara Bush

The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.

Evan Esar

We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

Greg Louganis

Never underestimate your ability to make someone else's life better - even if you never know it.

David Pollock

There are probably 35 to 40 volunteers who are on standby now.

Claudia Black

Volunteer. Find ways to be useful. Be kind.

Samuel Johnson

Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.

Terence McKenna

Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.

Bill Wyman

Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.

Donald Miller

I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.

David Foster Wallace

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity

Sienna Miller

I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty.

Matt LeBlanc

I started going gray in my early twenties.

Lorrie Moore

We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.

Christine Feehan

I killed Freddie the vamp like twenty times, but he wouldn't die. --Natalya Shonski