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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. (Quote by - Jimmy Carter)

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 relationship to humanity. (Quote by - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)

In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it. (Quote by - Marianne Williamson)

The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others. (Quote by - Ghandi)

Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. (Quote by - Booker T. Washington)

Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence. (Quote by - Aristotle)

The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town. (Quote by - Collier Graham)

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. (Quote by - Whoopi Goldberg)

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life. the children; those who are in the twilight of life. the elderly; and those who are in the shadow of life. the sick, the needy and the handicapped. (Quote by - Hubert Humphrey)

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop. (Quote by - Dr. Dorothy I)

Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world's problems. It might be one of us. With your help, we can build a more hopeful world. (Quote by - Marianne Larned)

Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)

In American society today, we need to have volunteerism. I truly believe that it is the glue that will hold us together and it will be the energy that will take us into the 21st Century. (Quote by - Sen. Barbara Mikulski)

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. (Quote by - Japanese Proverb)

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. (Quote by - Edmund Everett Hale)

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind. (Quote by - Henri Frederick Amiel)

Kindness is more important than wisdom and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. (Quote by - Theodore Isaac Rubin)

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on . . . The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)

There is no better exercise for your heart, Than reaching down and helping to lift someone up. (Quote by - Bernard Meltzer)

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. (Quote by - Ivy Baker Priest)

Never doubt that a small group of commited people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)

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. (Quote by - Arnold Hiatt)

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire--oh, no--love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living Yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest. (Quote by - Henry Van Dyke)

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