Volunteer Quotes - Page 23

• There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

  William James

  Helping Others, Unconditional, Commandments

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.209, Courier Corporation

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• Go out and do something for somebody. Go out and give something to somebody. It will take you away from yourself and make you happy.

  Joseph Jefferson

  Helping Others, Giving, Make You Happy

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• Whatsoever is done in charity, however small and of no reputation it be, bringeth forth good fruit.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Inspiration, Helping Others, Done

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Augustine, Thomas A'Kempis (2006). “The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ”, p.227, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I do believe there is enormous possibility to change this world.

  Nicole Kidman

  Believe, Helping Others, World

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• I've always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Helping Others, Solution To A Problem, Feels

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• Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?

  John Legend

  Helping Others, Empathy, Morality

  "John Legend Shows How Easy Charity Can Be With Poverty Action Tour". Interview with Jayson Rodriguez, www.mtv.com. January 29, 2008.

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• My involvement with UNICEF is particularly important to me because it is UNICEF that introduced me to volunteerism, thereby helping me to set my own personal standard of contributing my time and giving back to others. Working on behalf of UNICEF's lifesaving efforts is one of my most valued roles.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Time, Children, Helping Others

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• I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.

  Martin Sheen

  Happiness, Real, Helping Others

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• It's important to see what we can do to make a difference, but it's more important to me to do it every single day.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Helping Others, Differences, Making A Difference

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• First, there's the job - where the goal is simply to earn a living and support your family. Then there's the career - where you trace your progress through various appointments and achievements. Finally, there's the calling - the ideal blend of activity and character that makes work inseparable from life.

  Robert Bella

  Jobs, Character, Careers

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• My husband is the mayor. He has a lot of advisors. He has many advisors. Trust me. I'm not always the last one to state my opinion to him. And he does not always take my opinion. I think it's totally fair for any - in any couple, we just assume that people are speaking to their spouse. This is no different. In this day and age, I think we're going to see more couples like us. You know, couples who work together. I'm a volunteer, but I take this work very seriously and I want to help my husband in any way I can.

  Chirlane McCray

  Couple, Husband, Thinking

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• If something is important enough to you that you feel the urge to donate your money or time to it, I think it's best to try to express that form of giving through your career, not just as something you do on the side. If you enjoy your volunteering and charitable activities more than your career, it means your career is in serious need of an upgrade. In my opinion your career should be your best outlet for giving.

  Steve Pavlina

  Work, Mean, Thinking

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• Our good works are like stones cast into the pool of time; though the stones themselves may disappear, their ripples extend to eternity.

  Heidi

  May, Stones, Pool

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• While helping hundreds of thousands of refugees, Red Cross volunteers undoubtedly heard stories of Nazi brutality and rumors of mass gassings and they noted those rumors and kept an eye out for any evidence of them, but they saw nothing to indicate that the rumors were true.

  David Duke

  Eye, Ku Klux Klan, Rumor

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• I do a lot for PETA. I do a lot of things I think are really important, I volunteer at school and I'm still amazed I can pay my bills because I feel like I don't work that much, I really don't.

  Pamela Anderson

  School, Thinking, Important

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• Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Teacher, Children, School

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• Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Jobs, Weekend, Vote

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• People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Soup Kitchens, Self, People

  "Pay Someone to Name Your Child? How We Are Outsourcing Our Personal Affairs". Interview with Alyssa Figueroa, Don Hazen, www.alternet.org. August 13, 2012.

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• We are in a time when the Peace Corps mission is more vital than ever, and the organization is at a 30-year high in the number of volunteers in the field. The Peace Corps is currently in 69 posts and serving 75 countries across the globe.

  Kenny Marchant

  Country, Years, Organization

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• We need scientists to design new fuels. We need farmers to help grow them. We need engineers to invent new technologies. We need entrepreneurs to sell those technologies. We need workers to operate assembly lines that hum with high-tech, zero-carbon components. We need builders to hammer into place the foundations for a clean energy age. We need diplomats and businessmen and women, and Peace Corps volunteers to help developing nations skip past the dirty phase of development and transition to sustainable sources of energy. In other words, we need you.

  Barack Obama

  Zero, Dirty, Past

  Barack Obama's remarks at University of California-Irvine Commencement Ceremony at the Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 14, 2014.

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• I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.

  Rachelle Lefevre

  School, Wheels, Los Angeles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not really volunteering for no family films. I really like the sweet spot of being able to be edgy and controversial.

  Romany Malco

  Sweet, Able, Film

  "Romany Malco Talks THINK LIKE A MAN, A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN, UNSUPERVISED, and His YouTube Series". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 19, 2012.

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• Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Numbers, Different, Way

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.16, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.

  James Rollins

  Book, Writing, Animal

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• You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

  Benjamin Walker

  Force, Knows, Armed Forces Day

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