Volunteer Quotes

The work of volunteers impacts on all our lives, even if we are not aware of it.

In American Society today, we need to have volunteerism. I truly believe that it is the glue that will hold us together and it will be the energy that will take us into the 21st century.

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.

That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it.

I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose.

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.

So thank you for reminding me about the importance of being a good mom and a great volunteer as well.

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.

Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.

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

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.

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.

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.

In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy.

To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

Yes. The all-volunteer force is comprised of a very small percentage of the population. Therefore, fewer citizens have a personal interest in military matters and are not personally impacted.

Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.

Men have always volunteered, they just called themselves coaches, trustees, and firemen!

Going to Africa was being able to take my volunteering and my passion for hospice one step further.

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

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

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

[I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.

Volunteers are caring friends

The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well.

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

I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo.

Caring is a reflex...You live, you help.

Aaron was one of the few Jewish volunteers in our study, and I felt a certain kinship with him at that level.

No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.

We are not called upon to do all the good possible, but only that which we can do.

We had a very good number of mayors participate this year. All the mayors rode out with regular volunteers as well as members of our advisory council and our board members.

If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.

Our nation will succeed or fail to the degree that all of us - citizens and businesses alike - are active participanats in building strong, sustainable and enriching communities.

To truly find yourself, touch as many lives as possible!

We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.

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 people forget themselves, they usually do things others remember.

Hey Rose, welcome back. You still breaking hearts?" "Are you volunteering?" His grin widened." Let's hang out sometime and find out. If you ever get parole.

When Woodstock ended on Monday morning, over 600 acres of garbage was left behind on Max Yasgur's farm. It took over 400 volunteers and $100,000 to remove it all.

In my career, I learned that giving your services for free gives you a good return on your investment, not just financially but morally. It supplements your personal integrity.

I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

The more you expect from a volunteer the more you get.

In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community.