Solidarité Quote of the Day!

July 31, 2011 Sunday 
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. ~ Leo Buscaglia



July 30, 2011 Saturday 
When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else, and it'll become like a wildfire. ~ Whoopi Goldberg


July 29, 2011 Friday 
Kindness is more important than wisdom and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. ~ Theodore Isaac Rubin



July 28, 2011 Thursday 
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. ~ Marianne Williamson


July 27, 2011 Wednesday
I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. ~ Maya Angelou





July 26, 2011 Tuesday
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. ~ Tom Brokaw


July 25, 2011 Monday
If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever. ~ Kofi Annan


July 24, 2011 Sunday
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth. ~ Muhammad Ali


July 23, 2011 Saturday
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. ~ Henry Ford


July 22, 2011 Friday
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. ~ Euripides


July 21, 2011 Thursday
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. ~ Jim Rohn


July 20, 2011 Wednesday
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it. ~ W. Clement Stone


July 19, 2011 Tuesday
Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. ~ John Ruskin


July 18, 2011 Monday
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way. ~  Earl Nightingale


July 17, 2011 Sunday
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. ~ Galileo Galilei


July 16, 2011 Saturday
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. ~ John Locke


July 15, 2011 Friday
'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.  ~  William Shakespeare


July 14, 2011 Thursday
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.  ~ Abraham Lincoln


July 13, 2011 Wednesday
Conscience keeps more people awake than coffee. ~ Unknown and the motto on the Solidarité Mug


July 12, 2011 Tuesday
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.  ~ Henry Ford




July 11, 2011 Monday
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain. ~ Helen Keller


July 10, 2011 Sunday
Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way. ~ Joseph Badaracco quotes 


July 9, 2011 Saturday
The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little. ~ Franklin D Roosevelt

July 8, 2011 Friday
Some people want it to happen, some wish it to happen, others make it happen.~ Unknown


July 7, 2011 Thursday
Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. ~ John Ruskin


July 6, 2011 Wednesday
Give graciously, even an oinon. ~ Afghan proverb and the motto of the Solidarité European Cookbook



July 5, 2011 Tuesday
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. . . As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others. ~ Audrey Hepburn

July 4, 2011 Monday
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~ Japanese Proverb


July 3, 2011 Sunday

Service to others is the payment you make for your space here on earth. ~  Mohammed Ali


July 2, 2011 Saturday

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke




July 1, 2011 Friday
We ourselves must be full of life if we are going to make life fuller for others. ~ David Sawyer


June 30, 2011 Thursday







The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town. ~ Collier Graham


June 29, 2011 Wednesday
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. ~ Elizabeth Bibesco


June 28, 2011 Tuesday
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. ~ William John Bennett


June 27, 2011 Monday
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows. ~ Moliere

June 26, 2011 Sunday
He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own. ~ Confucius


June 25, 2011 Saturday 
Caring is a reflex...You live, you help. ~ Ram Dass

June 24, 2011 Friday 
I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing 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 it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. ~ Etienne de Grellet


June 23, 2011 Thursday
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. ~ Ellen Goodman

June 22, 2011 Wednesday
Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed. ~ Gerald Jampolsky


 June 21, 2011 Tuesday
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. ~ Kahil Gibran 


June 20, 2011 Monday 
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to humanity. ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


June 19, 2011 Sunday
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. ~ Edward Arlington Robinson



June 18, 2011 Saturday
When you open your heart to giving, angels fly to your door. ~ Unknown


June 17, 2011 Friday
The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.  ~ Laurence Leamer


June 16, 2011 Thursday
The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free. ~ Robert Brault


June 15, 2011 Wednesday
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.  ~ Jerome Fleishman


June 14, 2011 Tuesday
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. ~ Abraham Lincoln



June 13, 2011 Monday
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ~ Dalai Lama


June 12, 2011 Sunday
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.


June 11, 2011 Saturday
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.  ~ Mother Teresa


June 10, 2011 Friday
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. ~ Jack London

June 9, 2011 Thursday 
There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people. ~ Fannie Lou Hamer



June 8, 2011 Wednesday
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. ~ W. H. Auden


June 7, 2011 Tuesday
Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way. ~ Joseph Badaracco


June 6, 2011 Monday
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. ~ Sally Koch


June 5, 2011 Sunday
Make it a rule never to lie down at night without being able to say, "I have made one human being at least a little wiser, a little happier or a little better

this day. ~ Charles Kingsley


June 4, 2011 Saturday
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is every wasted. ~ Aesop


June 3, 2011 Friday
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. ~ Albert Schweitzer


June 2, 2011 Thursday
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.  ~Mother Teresa


June 1, 2011 Wednesday
No one cares what you know, unless they know that you care.Unknown


May 31, 2011 Tuesday
He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own. ~ Confucius


May 30, 2011 Monday
Live simply that others might simply live. ~ Elizabeth Ann Seton

May 29, 2011 Sunday
Find a need and fill it. ~ Ruth Stafford Peale


May 28, 2011 Saturday
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.  ~Anne Frank


May 27, 2011 Friday 
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no person can

sincerely try to help another without helping themselves. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson



May 26, 2011 Thursday 
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. ~  Anonymous


May 25, 2011 Wednesday 
Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others. ~ Elbert Hubbard



May 24, 2011 Tuesday 
Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year, but when you volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in. ~ Unknown



May 23, 2011 Monday
Charity sees the need and not the cause. – German proverb


May 22, 2011 Sunday 
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such
a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. ~  Old Indian Saying



May 21, 2011 Saturday
Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind! ~ Henri Amiel

May 20, 2011 Friday
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do. ~ Helen Keller

May 19, 2011 Thursday 
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. – Buddha


May 18, 2011 Wednesday
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving individuals. We all must work for our own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity. ~ Marie Curie

May 17, 2011 Tuesday 
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ~ Margaret Mead



May 16, 2011 Monday 
To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, THIS is to have succeeded. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


May 15, 2011 Sunday 
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. ~ Henry David Thoreau


May 14, 2011 Saturday
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~ Mark Twain


May 13. 2011 Friday
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave ~ Calvin Coolidge


May 12, 2011 Thursday 
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ~ Emily Kimbrough



May 11, 2011 Wednesday
The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry man; the coat hanging unused in your closet belongs to the man who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the man who has none; the money which you hoard in the bank belongs to the poor. You do wrong to everyone you could help, but fail to help. ~ St. Basil the Great


May 10, 2011 Tuesday 
You will find, as you look back on your life, that the moments that stand out are the moments when you have done things for others. - Henry Drummond



May 9, 2011 Monday 
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. – Albert Pike



May 8, 2011 Sunday 
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



May 7, 2011 Saturday
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.- William James


May 6, 2011 Friday 
Volunteers are love in motion ~  Unknown


May 5, 2011 Thursday
A civilization flourishes when people plant trees under which they will never sit. ~ Greek Proverb


May 4, 2011 Wednesday 
The Winds of change shall not discourage the volunteer. ~   Lorna Wilson


May 3, 2011 Tuesday 
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others. ~  Ghandi


May 2, 2011 Monday
Never doubt that a small group of commited people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ~  Margaret Mead


May 1, 2011 Sunday 
We can do no great things, only small things with great love. ~ Mother Teresa


April 30, 2011 Saturday 
The heart of a volunteer is not measured in size, but by the depth of the commitment to make a difference in the lives of others. ~ DeAnn Hollis



April 29, 2011 Friday 
You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give. ~  Winston Churchill


April 28, 2011 Thursday
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking "What's in it for me?" ~ Brian Tracy


April 27, 2011 Wednesday 
Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. ~ Norman B. Rice


April 26, 2011 Tuesday
Don't ever question the value of volunteers. Noah's Ark was built by volunteers; the Titanic was built by professionals. ~ Unknown


April 25, 2011 Monday

You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give. ~ Winston Churchill


April 24, 2011 Sunday
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. ~ Booker T. Washington

April 23, 2011 Saturday
Volunteers are not paid - not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless. ~ Anonimus


April 22, 2011 Friday
Be the change you wish to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Ghandi