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The following quotes are from: http://www.energizeinc.com/reflect/quote1.html

 "If you see someone without a smile ....give them one of yours"
- Submitted 18 Jan 2011 by Becky Heimbach

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."
-Albert Schweitzer - Submitted 7 July 2011 by Susie Kapelovitz

"The road to success is not crowded. Because while most are looking for ways to take, the truly successful people are finding ways to give. With a giving attitude, every situation is an opportunity for success."
- Unknown - Submitted by Gracie Harrison

"When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?"
-- Henry David Thoreau - Submitted by Nancy McGee

I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
--Lily Tomlin - Submitted on September 29, 2008 by Joyce Flaugher
 
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and help them become what they are capable of being. 
--Goethe Submitted on February 15, 2008 by Elizabeth Ellis

Someone asked the anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-1978), "What is the first sign you look for, to tell you of an ancient civilization?" The interviewer had in mind a tool or article of clothing. Ms. Mead surprised him by answering, a "healed femur". When someone breaks a femur, they can't survive to hunt, fish or escape enemies unless they have help from someone else. Thus, a healed femur indicates that someone else helped that person, rather than abandoning them and saving themselves. Isn't that what we in philanthropy are all about? Healing femurs of one sort or another?
Submitted on 8 November 2007 by Leslie Paige
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I used to teach English on a volunteer basis to these great kids back when I lived in Korea. There was a lot of love there. No matter how far apart - always in my heart.

The following quotes are from: http://www.quotegarden.com/volunteer-apprec.html

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

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

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

How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
~William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, much later adapted to "So shines a good deed in a weary world" by David Seltzer for the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
~Author Unknown

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

If you want to touch the past, touch a rock. If you want to touch the present, touch a flower. If you want to touch the future, touch a life.
~Author Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from
themselves
. ~James Matthew Barrie