Nashville Humane Volunteers

Famous Quotes on Volunteering:*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.- Jimmy Carter * 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 somethign that I can do.- Edmund Everett Hale * The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.- Norman Vincent Peale*Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started. - Ben Linder * Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.- Martin Luther King, Jr. * The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. - Mahtatma Ghandi * No man is poor poor as to have nothing work giving. GIve what you have. To someone it may be better than you dare to think.- Henry Wadworth Longfellow * Nobody cares how much you think unless they know how much you care.- Unknown * The magnitude of our social problems will require that all citizens and institutions make a commitment to volunteering as a way of life and as a primary opportunity create needed change.— George Romney * We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give. —Winston Churchill * How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving. — James Cash Penny * If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. — Booker T. Washington * A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. —Henrik Ibsen, poet and playwright * No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. — Aesop * Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfull, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. — Margaret Mead, anthropologist * Everyone can be great because anyone can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t even have to make your subject and and your verb agree to serve… You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. * You cannot help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself. — General H. Norman Schwarzkopf * How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. — Anne Frank * Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. — James Freeman Clarke * No man can become rich without himself enriching others. — Andrew Carnegie * We can do no great things, only small things with great love. — Mother Theresa * Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another. —Erma Bombeck * The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have. — Leonard Nimoy * It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. —Ralph Waldo Emerson * You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. — Ralph Waldo Emerson * Volunteering creates a national character in which the community and the nation take on a spirit of compassion, comradeship and confidence. — Brian O'Connell