Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that
ever has.
Margaret Mead
Service to others is the payment you make for your space
here on earth.
Mohammed Ali
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for
good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke, British
statesman and orator
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
Talmud
Never before has man had such a great capacity to control
his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy
and human misery. We have the power to make the best generation of mankind in
the history of the world.
President John F. Kennedy
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision
is a nightmare.
Japanese Proverb
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.
Dr. Dorothy I. Height,
president and CEO of the NCNW
One is not born into the world to do everything but to do
something.
Henry David Thoreau, poet, writer, philosopher
I shall pass through this world but once. Any good
therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let
me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way
again.
Mahatma Gandhi
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 your verb agree to serve... You only need a heart full of grace. A soul
generated by love...
Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.
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 to create needed change.
George Romney, former Michigan governor
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
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and help them become what
they are capable of being.
Goethe
I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and
change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the privilege and
responsibility of sharing with others less fortunate; and that service is the
rent each of us pays for living, the very purpose of life and not something you
do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals.
Marian Wright Edelman
Giving kids clothes and food is one thing but it's much more important to teach
them that other people besides themselves are important, and that the best thing
they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.
Dolores Huerta
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.
Walter Lippmann
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil
which does not produce its like.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it
provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Ronald Reagan
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
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
We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
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
I have been the recipient of love and service, therefore I can love and serve.
There is great satisfaction in service to others, in seeing people and their
conditions change.
Clarence E. Hodges
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.
Ivy Baker Priest
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
Volunteering can be an exciting, growing, enjoyable experience. It is truly
gratifying to serve a cause, practice one's ideals, work with people, solve
problems, see benefits, and know one had a hand in them.
Harriet Naylor
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.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
Booker T. Washington
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the
weak and strong.
George Washington Carver
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for someone else.
Benjamin Franklin
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I don't know what your destiny will be, but the one thing I know; the only ones
among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how
to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
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.
Edmund Everett Hale
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.
Hubert Humphrey
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
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.
Arnold Hiatt
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
Leonard Nimoy
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in
the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa:
Citizen service is the very
American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as
members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is
nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of
duty, a new season of service.
Though government has an important role to play in meeting
the many challenges that remain before us, we are coming to understand that no
organization, including government, will fully succeed without the active
participation of each of us. Volunteers are vital to enabling this country to
live up to the true promise of its heritage.
Bill Clinton:
:
Every problem that the country faces is being solved in
some community by some group or some individual. The question is how to get
connected so that the whole nation can solve problems.
A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot
see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think
of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense:
partners in civilization.
George H. W. Bush
:
Snowflakes melt alone - but together they can be traffic stoppers!
Teamwork allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Some people want it to happen, some wish it to happen, others make it happen.
Volunteers aren't paid, not because they are worthless,
but because they are priceless.
Anonymous
Alpena Volunteer Center
ACC Center Bldg. Room 108
665 Johnson St.
Alpena, MI 49707
Phone: (989) 358-7271
Toll-Free: 888-468-6222 ext. 7271
Fax: (989) 358-7554
E-mail:
bruskik@alpenacc.edu
Information is current up to
02/13/2008