Volunteer Quotes

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03df0f21egerdp.jpg"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="03e203c0.jpg" border=0 width="32" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#66334C" FACE="Arial" ><B>The DAVA Lighthouse</B></FONT><B>      |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The DAVA Lighthouse"><U><B>home</B></U></A><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#66334C" FACE="Copperplate Gothic Light" ><B> <!-onMouseover Link CSS Script-© Dynamic Drive (www.dynamicdrive.com). 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Appreciation for others and ourselves is life and spirit for each and every one of us."</div> <bR> <div> "You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give."</div> <bR> <div> "How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world."</div> <div> --<B>Anne Frank</B></div> <bR> <div> "When you open your heart to giving, angels fly to your door."</div> <div> A wise lady once told me that when you find your ideal job, you will do it for less than they pay you and when you find your calling you will do it for free. This is my ideal job. I hope you find yours."</div> <div> --<B>Martin Tichenor</B></div> <bR> <div> Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage. </div> <div> --<B>St. Francis of Assisi</B></div> <bR> <div> There are two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we receive, and the larger kind we feel for what we give.</div> <div> --<B>Edward Arlington Robinson</B></div> <bR> <div> It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that noone can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.</div> <div> --<B>Ralph Waldo Emerson</B></div> <bR> <div> There is only one thing worse than training your volunteers and having them leave - and that's not training them, and having them stay.</div> <div> --<B>unknown</B></div> <bR> <div> "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted"</div> <div> --<B>Aesop</B></div> <bR> <div> "If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers."</div> <div> --<B>Whoopi Goldberg</B></div> <bR> <div> "Volunteers are paid in six figures... S-M-I-L-E-S"</div> <div> --<B>Gayla LeMaire </B></div> <bR> <div> "Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day."</div> <div> --<B>Sally Koch</B></div> <bR> <div> "I feel that we all must live, so that when we are gone, everyone will miss the work we did, but someone has learned by watching us, how to take up the banner and go forward. "</div> <bR> <div> "Help one another; there's no time like the present and no present like the time."</div> <div> --<B>James Durst, poet/songwriter</B></div> <bR> <div> "Some get and forget. Some give and forgive."</div> <bR> <div> "Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth."</div> <bR> <div> "Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who have need of a man's help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For, remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too." </div> <div> --<B>Albert Schweitzer </B></div> <bR> <div> "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor touched...but felt in the heart." </div> <div> --<B>Helen Keller</B> </div> <bR> <div> "Life's most persistent and urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?' " </div> <div> --<B>Rev. Martin Luther King </B></div> <bR> <div> "When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights." </div> <div> --<B>George Burns </B></div> <bR> <div> "If you want to change the world, be that change." </div> <div> --<B>Ghandi</B> </div> <bR> <div> "It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing." </div> <div> --<B>Mother Theresa</B></div> <bR> <div> "To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own" - <B>Abraham Lincoln</B> </div> <bR> <div> "A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses."</div> <div> - <B>Chinese proverb </B></div> <bR> <div> "Help your brother's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side." Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind." - <B>Eric Hoffer </B></div> <bR> <div> "If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others." </div> <div> - <B>Audrey Hepburn </B></div> <bR> <div> "Don't just work in the world, work to change it!"</div> <bR> <div> "All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own" </div> <div> --<B>Anonymous</B></div> <bR> <div> "A candle loses nothing of its light when lighting another."</div> <div> --<B>Kahlil Gibran</B> </div> <bR> <div> ***************</div> <div> Happiness Cake</div> <div> 1 Cup Good Thoughts </div> <div> 1 Cup Consideration for Others </div> <div> 2 Cups Well-Beaten Faults </div> <div> 1 Cup Kind Deeds </div> <div> 3 Cups Forgiveness </div> <div> Mix thoroughly. Add Tears of Joy, Sorrow and Sympathy. Flavor with Love and Kindly Service. Fold in 4 Cups of Prayer and Faith. Blend well. Fold into daily life. Bake well with warmth and Human Kindness and serve with a Smile, anytime.</div> <div> ****************</div> <bR> <div> "Volunteers don't necessarily have the time, but they have the heart." --<B>Anonymous </B></div> <bR> <div> "I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced that they are about to change the world. I am more awed by ... those who ... struggle to make one small difference after another." --<B>Ellen Goodman</B></div> <bR> <div> "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."  </div> <bR> <div> "We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about its width and depth." --<B>Evan Esar</B> </div> <bR> <div> "I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy, I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy. " --<B>Mother Theresa </B></div> <bR> <div> "Having a big heart has nothing to do with how big your bank account is. Everyone has something to give". </div> <div> --<B>Barbara Bush</B></div> <bR> <div> One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something. </div> <div> --<B>Henry David Thoreau </B></div> <bR> <div> Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet!</div> <div> --<B>unknown </B></div> <bR> <div> "I cannot know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know is that the truly happy among you will be those who have learned to serve."</div> <div> --<B>Albert Schweitzer </B></div> <bR> <div> "Service is not as much about good actions, as it is about good feelings; creating them in others, and experiencing them within. It is not so much about 'doing', as it is about 'being'; being one's best, being one's higher self. Love, is the only true doer. Good deeds, like good works, are but priceless opportunities to experience and share our being's deepest nature: Joy." </div> <div> --<B>Author anonymous. </B></div> <bR> <div> Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.</div> <div> --<B>Martin Luther King, Jr. </B></div> <bR> <div> Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can. </div> <div> --<B>John Wesley </B></div> <bR> <div> Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.</div> <div> -- <B>Edmond Burke </B></div> <bR> <div> Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? </div> <div> --<B>Martin Luther King Jr. </B></div> <bR> <div> Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.</div> <div> --<B>Will Rogers </B></div> <bR> <div> People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. --<B>Unknown </B></div> <bR> <div> 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.</div> <div> --<B>Marianne Williamson</B> </div> <bR> <div> You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for which you get not pay but the privilege of doing it.</div> <div> --<B>Albert Schwester</B></div> <bR> <div> The greatest service to yourself is service to others! --<B>Unknown </B></div> <bR> <div> Some people dream of worthy accomplishments while others stay awake and do them!<B> -</B><B> </B><B>Unknown</B></div> <bR> <div> 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.</div> <div> - <B>Leo Buscaglia</B></div> <bR> <div> When we dream alone, it is only a dream, but when we dream together, it is the beginning of reality.</div> <div> -<B> Unknown</B></div> <bR> <div> I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I ought to do. What I ought to do, by the grace of God, I will do. - <B>Anonymous</B></div> <bR> <div> I wondered why somebody diunknowndn't do something. Then I realized, I am somebody. -- <B>Anonymous</B></div> <bR> <div> When people forget themselves, they usually do things others remember.</div> <div> -- <B>James Coco </B></div> <bR> <div> Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain loving one another. --<B>Erma Brombeck</B></div> <bR> <div> I feel the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.</div> <div> --<B>Jonas Salk</B></div> <bR> <div> "May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion."</div> <div> --<B>Thomas Jefferson</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>