Volunteer Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.

  Eden Sher

  Long, Comfort, If I Stay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• [On the socialites in New York in the Nineties who devoted themselves to politics, charities, and other volunteer work:] I never knew but one woman who devoted her life exclusively to the social game. She ended her days arranging dinner parties with paper dolls, a breakdown pitiful to watch.

  Margaret Case Harriman

  New York, Party, Games

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• In spite of conflicting signals - and in spite of a popular culture that sometimes puts down their innocence - most of our kids are good kids. Large numbers do volunteer work. Nearly all believe in God, and most practice their faith. Teen pregnancy and violence are actually going down. Across America, under a program called True Love Waits, nearly a million teens have pledged themselves to abstain from sex until marriage.

  George W. Bush

  Sex, Believe, Pregnancy

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• I urge all Texans to answer the call to serve those in need. By volunteering their time, energy or resources to helping others, adults and youngsters follow Christ's message of love and service in thought and deed. Therefore I, George W. Bush, Governor of Texas, do hereby proclaim June 10, 2000, Jesus Day in Texas and urge the appropriate recognition whereof. In official recognition whereof, I hereby affix my signature this 17th day of March, 2000.

  George W. Bush

  Jesus, Humor, Helping Others

  The "Jesus Day" Proclamation by George W. Bush, www.pbs.org. March 17, 2000.

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• It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion to the project that cannot be found in a hired crew.

  Paul Watson

  Passion, Sea, Shepherds

  "The Cold War Over the Hottest of Blood" by Captain Paul Watson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.

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• I am possibly thinking about doing an Internet show in the future that will highlight political organizations that I seek out to let people know about them, volunteer opportunities, and donation opportunities.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Opportunity, Thinking, Organization

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Elderly, Organization, Sick

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• You volunteering to play Big Gulp? ~Wraith

  Larissa Ione

  Play, Bigs

  Larissa Ione (2009). “Desire Unchained: A Demonica Novel”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• Hey Rose, welcome back. You still breaking hearts?" "Are you volunteering?" His grin widened." Let's hang out sometime and find out. If you ever get parole.

  Richelle Mead

  Heart, Rose, Hey

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.31, Penguin

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