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SERVICE-LEARNING QUOTES

"No act of kindness, however small, is wasted."
Aesop

"A good college affirms that service to others is a central part of education."
The Carnegie Foundation, College: The Undergraduate Experience in America

"The greatest tragedy is not to live and die, as we all must. The greatest tragedy is for a person to live and die without knowing the satisfaction of giving life to others."
Cesar E. Chavez

"Not to know is bad. Not to want to know is worse.
Not to hope is unthinkable. Not to care is unforgivable."
Johnnetta P. Cole

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I will learn."
Benjamin Franklin

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for someone else."
Ben Franklin

"As long as space remains, As long as living beings remain, I will remain in order to serve."
Dalai Lama

"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 to neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
Mahatma Ghandi

"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 and relationship to humanity."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Everyone can be great because everyone 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 don't need to know about Platoand Aristotle to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. And you can be that servant."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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

"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

"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."
George Santayana

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but the only thing I know; the only ones among you who will really be happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve."
Albert Schweitzer

"I slept and dreamt that life was pleasure: I woke and saw that life was service; I served and discovered that service was pleasure."
Rabindranath Tagore

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