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MHS Community Service: Sharing Our Humanity



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Inspirational Quotes

"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.

"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 grow and develop." Dr. Dorothy Height

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give." Winston Churchill

"There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential." Rusty Berkus

"Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together." Vista M. Kelly

"There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly." Anne Sophie Swetchine

"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give." Eleanor Roosevelt


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