Volunteer Quotes - Page 18

• There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.

  Mother Teresa

  Teamwork, Suffering, Working Together

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• ...the world is a giant community now. This excuse of distance, time, doesn't work...We're all so connected. We can't spend every second of our lives worrying about another family miles away but we somehow have to factor it in where we can.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Distance, Helping Others, Worry

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• Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

  Kathleen Turner

  Helping Others, Society, Benefits

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• Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.

  Natalie Portman

  Peace, Responsibility, Helping Others

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• If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?

  Sheryl Crow

  Kindness, Helping Others, Compassion

  "On Deception, Spin, and Losing Our Way" by Sheryl Crow, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2007.

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• Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

  Harry Chapin

  Life, Relationship, Helping Others

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• We have to do what we can to help wherever and whenever it is possible for us to help.

  Jackie Chan

  Helping Others, Helping, Volunteerism

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• I'm glad you came here and got the help you needed," Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that people do in here to remind themselves that you're the patient and they're the doctor/volunteer/ employee. They like you, and they genuinely want you to do better, but when they shake your hand you feel that distance, that slight disconnect because they know that you're still broken somewhere, that you might snap at any moment.

  Ned Vizzini

  Distance, Doctors, Hands

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• Biffy said, off the cuff, "Or we could find a replacement queen." "Volunteering for the position?" "Why, Professor, is that wittiness I detect?" "Only for you." "Charmer." Biffy tapped him on the arm playfully.

  Gail Carriger

  Queens, Cuffs, Arms

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• No proper princess would come out looking for dragons," Woraug objected. "Well I'm not a proper princess then!" Cimorene snapped. "I make cherries jubillee and I volunteer for dragons, and I conjugate Latin verbs-- or at least I would if anyone would let me. So there!

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Latin, Princess, Dragons

  Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I notice, however, that Peter only pretends to inject himself—when he presses the plunger down, the fluid runs down his throat, and he wipes it casually with a sleeve. I wonder what it feels like to volunteer to forget everything.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Forget Everything, Wipe

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• You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

  Pablo Casals

  Motivational, Children, Helping Others

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• Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.

  Francis of Assisi

  Courage, Heart, Sacrifice

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• We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us.

  Angelina Jolie

  Believe, Helping Others, Equality

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• A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Happiness, Summer

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• To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

  Mother Teresa

  Friendship, Faith, Inspiration

  1975 In Time, 29 Dec.

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• To the wrongs that need resistance,
  To the right that needs assistance,
  To the future in the distance,
  Give yourselves.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Honesty, Distance, Integrity

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• We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

  Wangari Maathai

  Teamwork, Helping Others, Men

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• Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out. Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature--a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Children, Men

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• I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

  Clara Barton

  Success, Nursing, Past

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• The idea of kids helping other kids is such a great way to introduce children to being involved in charitable causes and volunteer work, setting them on the path to doing good for others throughout their lives.

  Brandy Norwood

  Children, Kids, Helping Others

  "Brandy named international youth spokesperson for UNICEF". www.mtv.com. July 29, 1999.

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• Love is not a volunteer thing.

  Samuel Richardson

  Short Love, Love Is

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• Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Evil, Example, Doe

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• It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1990). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: The post-war years, her acclaimed columns, 1945-1952”, 1990.

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• The vast majority of the American people are hard-working taxpayers who take responsibility for their families, go to work every day, they pay their mortgage on time, they volunteer in the community.

  Marco Rubio

  Hard Work, Responsibility, People

  "Republicans' Crucial Conference; More Cruise Ship Nightmares; ADHD Drugs Over-Prescribed". "CNN Newsroom" with Suzanne Malveaux, www.cnn.com. March 14, 2013.

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