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Quote Exercise

Quotes are great to use for reflection because they are usually easy to find and because people often interpret them in different ways. So, they can really get your discussion going. You can use quotes that state positive things, or quotes that might express unpopular opinions. Quotes don't have to be from someone famous. Volunteers can make up their own quotes!

One way to do the Quote Exercise is to write quotes on slips of paper and put them in a hat. Each member of the group draws out a slip and reads it. Then they take turns sharing what they think it means and discussing how it applies to the service project.

Click here to download some great service-related quotes.

Here are a few more quotes you can add to your list:

  • "A different world cannot be built by indifferent people." Horace Mann
  • "I believe that the serving and being served are reciprocal and that one cannot really be one without the other." Robert Greenleaf
  • "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
  • "We don't see things as they are; we see things as we are." Cicero
  • "Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much power you have." Oprah Winfrey
  • "I change myself, I change the world." Gloria Anzaldua
  • "Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in with many other Americans live. . . . They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them." Shirley Chisholm
  • "Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be unlocked from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal." Marily Ferguson
  • "Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire." William Butler Yeats
  • "I believe we should fight for the unrealistic, rather than defend the unacceptable." Bill Shore
  • "Everything has changed except our way of thinking." Albert Einstein


Source: Facilitating Reflection: A Manual for Leaders and Educators

 

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