Volunteer Quotes - Page 12

• A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

  John Updike

  Leadership, Men, People

  John Updike (2012). “The Coup: A Novel”, p.172, Random House

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• [T]he Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers? Or maybe the people in Texas were attacked because of child abuse. But, if child abuse was the issue, why didn't Janet Reno tear-gas Woody Allen?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Country, Religious, Children

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut”, p.228, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The debt that each generation owes to the past, it must pay to the future.

  Abigail Scott Duniway

  Helping Others, Past, Generations

  "Westward the Women". Book by Nancy Wilson Ross, Mar 15, 2016.

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• We are all part of the human family and we should be about doing what all good families do - caring for our less fortunate brothers and sisters.

  Dan O'Neill

  Brother, Caring, Helping Others

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• Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.

  Sholom Rokeach

  Helping Others, Evil, Doe

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• Give help rather than advice.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Helping Others, Giving, Advice

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• Do all you can with what you have in the time you have in the place you are.

  Nkosi Johnson

  Motivational, Success, Time

  "One Boy's Heroism in the Face of AIDS". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 1, 2004.

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• If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together.

  Lilla Watson

  Work, Community, Together

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• To truly find yourself, touch as many lives as possible!

  Ashley Klein

  Finding Yourself

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• We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

  Robert H. Shaffer

  Teacher, Teaching, Views

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• We are not called upon to do all the good possible, but only that which we can do.

  Theodore Guerin

  Can Do

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• When people forget themselves, they usually do things others remember.

  James Coco

  People, Remember, Forget

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• The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!

  William J. Clinton

  Government, People, Community

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• Our nation will succeed or fail to the degree that all of us - citizens and businesses alike - are active participanats in building strong, sustainable and enriching communities.

  Arnold Hiatt

  Strong, Community, Citizens

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• Volunteerism is the voice of the people put into action. These actions shape and mold the present into a future of which we can all be proud.

  Helen Dyer

  Pride, Helping Others, Voice

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• The work of volunteers impacts on all our lives, even if we are not aware of it.

  Antony Worrall Thompson

  Impact, Charity, Our Lives

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• You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

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• An intelligent patient, private or otherwise, to whom you have taken the trouble to explain the nature of the investigation, makes the best laboratory animal.

  Fuller Albright

  Taken, Science, Animal

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• The 2.4 million bright, brave, incredibly fit and remarkably talented young Americans who have served in our armed forces since we were attacked on 9-11-01 are all volunteers. As General Petraeus put it during a conversation we had in Afghanistan, 'They all came or stayed, knowing they were going to war.' For more than a decade, these patriots and their loved ones have made extraordinary sacrifices for this country. They embody the classical definition of heroes: those who put themselves at risk for the benefit of others.

  Oliver North

  Country, Veterans Day, War

  "The Heroes of 2011" by Oliver North, www.foxnews.com. November 11, 2011.

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• We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of volunteers. Today they constitute what's referred to as 'the social economy'.

  Julia Gillard

  Organization, Community, Charity

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• For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

  William James

  War, Political, Politics

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq - mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods - are victims just as much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to die for a victory that will never be theirs.

  Arundhati Roy

  Children, War, Fighting

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• I can't be found in myself; I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care for myself in others.

  Hugh Prather

  Care, Found, Clear

  Hugh Prather (2001). “Love and Courage”, p.12, Conari Press

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• We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.

  Ivy Baker Priest

  Thinking, Ivy, People

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• I want to see that our older people still feel useful, and our younger people feel engaged in our wider society, and I want to feel that we can bond people from disparate backgrounds, ages and communities together in a greater project, which they get engaged in for the sake of others. Volunteering, in all sorts of ways, seems to me likely to be able to achieve some of that

  Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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