Best 73 quotes in «volunteer quotes» category

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 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.

These often unsung heroes understand...that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. Individuals ...are taking on these challenges in their communities, volunteering to make a difference. They remain the true champions of our work towards the Millennium Development Goals.

The young nobles, of whom there were many, were volunteers, who had paid their own expenses in expectation of a golden harvest, and they chafed in impatience and disgust. The religious element in the colony-unlike the former Huguenot emigration to Brazil--was evidently subordinate. The adventurers thought more of their fortunes than of their faith.

Volunteer. Find ways to be useful. Be kind.

Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization.

There are actresses who've had expensive work done and look great, so I'm not holier-than-thou about it. But it wouldn't be for me, perhaps because I've already been in hospital and wouldn't want to volunteer myself for it again.

We pass through this world but once.

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

What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver.

When the going gets tough, the prospect of delegating half your responsibilities to a willing volunteer, either to play a supporting role or take over the breadwinning, certainly holds allure.

When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

Which is more subversive-and corrosive-to believe in altruism or to see it simply as a cloak of self interest? Even if altruism did not exist, it would be necessary to believe in it. Pessimists in power are prone to despotism.

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

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.

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

If every citizen should recite their national anthem daily, you will develop love to serve your country better.

Answer the urgent call. Help when tragedy strikes. And do it for free.

Everyone breathing is broken. Keep breathing light into them until the stained glass collage takes your breath away.

A life dedicated to family, friends, community, and whole humanity is a life well spent.

How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker

I volunteered to take a bad chick place so my sister can be a good girl.

How many people volunteer for an army and then claim conscientious objector status?

Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily sacrifice of heart over mind, the forever ongoing task of explaining this and that, and why I don’t want to look like this and be like that but still here I am and if this is the body I’ve been given I’m sure as hell gonna make it work.

You don't have to be a billionaire to believe you can make a difference. Give your resources to a charity and volunteer in your community.

No, not words but the action speaks to our community's needs. Help when tragedy strikes.

People want to do something to make the world a better place. They will help when they are invited to.

On the road to success there are determination, real hard work, perseverance and challenges to tackle.

The truist indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.

Today, spend a little time cultivating relationships offline. Never forget that everybody isn't on social media.

Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness; a review of research by the Corporation for National and Community Service shows that those who aid the causes they value tend to be happier and in better health. They show fewer signs of physical and mental aging. And it's not just that helpful people also tend to be healthier and happier; helping others causes happiness. "Be selfless, if only for selfish reasons," as one of my happiness paradoxes holds. About one-quarter of Americans volunteer, and of those, a third volunteer for more than a hundred hours each year.

Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.

You should lead and serve by example without a title because people will and should remember you by and for your actions and accomplishments for doing good not by your title or positions.

A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Though a smile is little work, its effects are long lasting.

Bloom where you are planted!

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.

Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.

Dark clouds outside are no match to the bright smiles of volunteers at the GK relief center. Hope shines brightest in darkness. Miracles of solidarity can help a nation walk on water.

Don't test God and make some tests for him. That doesn't make any sense. Besides that he can do anything, above everything you could ask. He wants your heart to be real. He wants a volunteering lover. That's why he gives you a choice. He can tell a tree to grow and it will grow. But it's up to you to decide whether you obey him or not, he gave you a will. Even though he didn't give a tree a will, he gave you a will. And he says: "I want you to grow, will you grow? I want you to love me, will you love me? Like I love you, I love you so much.

Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

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

I do not believe so many Turks suspect my activities. The idea that this movement of volunteers is suspected by many Turks arises in the same way and for the same reasons that the world hears more about those Muslims whom the media call radicals. Since those who give this impression are extremely loud, some observers can be deceived.

If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever.

I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines.

If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.