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.
Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut.
We are 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear.
The outpouring of support from health professionals who want to volunteer for Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts has been tremendous.
There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer.
I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit.
When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.
It's amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won't lift a finger to help at home!
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
The soul is healed by being with children.
We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.
Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
For me, when I was a kid, volunteering was the last thing I was thinking about. When I see kids doing it now, it amazes me. It's very impressive, it gives them something productive to do as opposed to getting in trouble. For them to take time out at such a young age is remarkable. I think all kids should take a little time out to volunteer.
I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.
When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.
Imagine! People are not volunteering to go to foreign countries and die the way they used to! Imagine that!
The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less.
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
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