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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Volunteers.
Friendship is but another name for an alliance
with the follies and the misfortunes of others.
Our own share of miseries is sufficient:
why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
- Thomas Jefferson
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It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
The best effort of a fine person
is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
From wine what sudden friendship springs.
- John Gay
Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
I have no wealth to bestow on him.
If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward.
Is not friendship divine in this?
- Henry David Thoreau
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