Volunteer Quotes - Page 9

• Who does Bill Clinton think got off the boat and stepped on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thinking, Rocks, Doe

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• Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it.

  Matthew Lesko

  Summer, Teacher, National Parks

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• If you're dumb enough to volunteer for the army, I don't see why we're supposed to feel so bad when you get shot. I'm not saying we should throw a party or anything, but is it such a tragedy? If I'd gotten shot before I made 'Garden State', yeah, that's a tragedy, but some red-state hick getting his legs blown off? Come on.

  Zach Braff

  Party, Army, Garden

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• Why not allow patrons to comment on directors' decisions, vote on costume design, listen to dancers' conversations, volunteer to help out in ways beyond just writing a check? They can see themselves as co-producers, not just bystanders.

  Chris Elam

  Writing, Bystanders, Design

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• I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the global economy. This kind of contribution is even more powerful than giving cash or offering employees' time off to volunteer. It is a focused use of what your company does best. It is a great form of creative capitalism, because it takes the brainpower and makes life better for the richest, and dedicates some of it to improving the lives of everyone else.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Powerful, Issues

  Speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

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• I’d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.

  Mohammad Hatta

  Book, Long, Prison

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• You have to become involved to make an impact. No one is impressed with the won/loss record of the referee.

  John Noble Holcomb

  Loss, Impact, Community

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• There are three ways of trying to win the young. There is persuasion, there is compulsion, and there is attraction. You can preach at them: that is a hook without a worm. You can say, You must volunteer, and that is of the devil. You can tell them, You are needed. That appeal hardly ever fails.

  Kurt Hahn

  Winning, Trying, Devil

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• There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in political campaigns. Campaigns are very labor intensive and volunteer dependent.

  Marc Racicot

  Jobs, Europe, Political

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• They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have baffled the men they themselves were before Pearl Harbor. Among MacArthur's ardent infantrymen were cooks, mechanics, pilots whose planes had been shot down, seamen whose ships had been sunk, and some civilian volunteers.

  William Manchester

  Men, History, Generations

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• There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in factories and doctors offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils, and the White House staff, in state legislatures, in volunteer organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy making in the country.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Country, School, World Religions

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• Games are unnecessary obstacles we volunteer to tackle.

  Jane McGonigal

  Games, Obstacles, Unnecessary

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• We resist mindlessness of any kind. Again, drugs, like television, are fine for other people. The more enslaved they are, the easier it is for us, as long as they stay out of our way. Whether it’s through religiously-imposed ignorance, spectator sports, crack, pot, coke, heroin—or the consumer insecurities imposed by the almighty Tube—it’s fine with us as long as it keeps sheep more docile and easily contained. That doesn’t mean we have to subject ourselves to it. Military generals don’t step out on the missile range and volunteer as targets for the latest prototype weapons

  Blanche Barton

  Sports, Military, Ignorance

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• Volunteers are the backbone, heart, and soul of the restoration movement. And whatever the eventual results of their labors may be, working to revive damaged ecosystems is transforming and strengthening their relationship with the rest of nature.

  William K. Stevens

  Heart, Ecosystems, Soul

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• You don’t see many of these white anti-abortion women volunteering to have any black fetuses transplanted into their uterus’s, do you? No, you don’t see them adopting a whole lot of crack babies, do you? No, that might be something Christ would do.

  George Carlin

  Baby, White, Abortion

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• Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed to you and nothing is easy. You're not owed anything... No job or task is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do the things no one else wants to do, and do it better. Be a sponge. Be open and learn.

  Bobbi Brown

  Inspiring, Graduation, Jobs

  "Graduation Speech at Fashion Institute of Technology". www.seventeen.com.

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• Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.

  William Alexander

  Mean, Journey, Important

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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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• Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.

  Ric Ocasek

  Needs, Helping, Chance

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• Give help rather than advice.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Helping Others, Giving, Advice

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• Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world.

  Jason Mraz

  Inspirational, Life, Friday

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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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• 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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