Top 100 Volunteer Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they’re priceless.”

— Sherry Anderson

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2. “Do small things, with great love.”

— Mother Teresa

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3. “Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. Whatever form we are, able or disabled, rich or poor, it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing; a lifelong sharing of love with others.”

— Mother Teresa

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4. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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5. “Leave it better than you found it.”

— Robert Baden-Powell

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6. “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”

— Barack Obama

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7. “A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.”

— Mother Teresa

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8. “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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9. “Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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10. “A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything.”

— Simon Sinek

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11. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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12. “As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.”

— Maya Angelou

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13. “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

— Charles Dickens

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14. “Don’t give to get. Give to inspire others to give.”

— Simon Sinek

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15. “Life is short. Be of use.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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16. “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”

— Napoleon Hill

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17. “No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.”

— Max Lucado

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18. “Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.”

— Barbara Mikulski

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19. “Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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20. “The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.”

— Billy Graham

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21. “They alone live, who live for others.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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22. “I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”

— Mother Teresa

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23. “We have only today. Let us begin.”

— Mother Teresa

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24. “Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.”

— Tony Robbins

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25. “Your life will become better by making other lives better.”

— Will Smith

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26. “Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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27. “I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.”

— Jana Stanfield

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28. “We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.”

— Mother Teresa

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29. “Your job isn’t to judge. – Your job isn’t to figure out if someone deserves something or decide who is right or wrong. – Your job is to lift the fallen, restore the broken, and heal the hurting.”

— Joel Osteen

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30. “Love all, serve all, feed all.”

— Neem Karoli Baba

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31. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

— Mother Teresa

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32. “If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”

— Maya Angelou

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33. “Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray.”

— Sai Baba

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34. “Together we are better.”

— John Paul Warren

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35. “What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”

— Saint Augustine

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36. “The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.”

— Rick Warren

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37. “As we lose ourselves in the service of others, we discover our own lives and our own happiness.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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38. “Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.”

— Mother Teresa

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39. “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

— Paul the Apostle

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40. “If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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41. “When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.”

— Maya Angelou

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42. “Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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43. “No one can do everything, but everyone can do something, and together we can change the world.”

— Ronald J. Sider

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44. “Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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45. “As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

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46. “We should be shining lamps, giving light to all around us.”

— Catherine McAuley

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47. “Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.”

— Mother Teresa

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48. “There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.”

— Mother Teresa

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49. “We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.”

— Dolores Huerta

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50. “The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.”

— Robert F. Kennedy

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