Great Volunteer Sayings

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

George W. Bush

#2. I was a complete tomboy. I loved wandering out in storms or walking on the beaches in the dark. It was a very free upbringing, and I'm grateful to my parents for that.

Amanda Burton

#3. The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die.

Swami Vivekananda

#4. My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as a volunteer only after a great deal of explaining and arguing.

Paul Theroux

#5. 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.

Celia Imrie

#6. Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and human misery. We have the power to make the best generation of mankind in the history of the world.

John F. Kennedy

#7. Do all you can with what you have, in the time you have, in the place you are.

Nkosi Johnson

#8. Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

Aaron Huey

#9. What a great burden, the luxury of the way we live. Since no one makes suffer we have elected to volunteer.

Philip K. Dick

#10. He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.

Jane Birkin

#11. Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

Elbert Hubbard

#12. I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror movies and the old great filmmakers.

Gina Philips

#13. But the real growth I must say in terms of the public sector for the Labor Department is really at state and local levels. That's where the real opportunities are today.

Alexis Herman

#14. When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

Michael Arad

#15. The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted.

Laurence Housman

#16. Our all-volunteer force continues to prove itself with a great level of professionalism, personal commitment and a technical competence that is quite remarkable.

Geoff Davis

#17. There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.

William Halsey

#18. The truth is, my dad was a great driver. I mean, he could handle an automobile. He loved speed. He used to joke that his one regret was he didn't join the volunteer fire service so he could drive the ambulance.

Joe Biden

#19. Studies show that adults who ask younger people to join them in volunteer ministries become significant mentors and friends to these young servants ... a great way to serve not only those you are serving but young people, too.

Rich Bimler

#20. Don't be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.

Lorde

#21. The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

James M. Barrie

#22. What is real is always worth it.

Janet Fitch

#23. 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.

Mother Teresa

#24. The idea of kids helping other kids is such a great way to introduce children to being involved in charitable causes and volunteer work, setting them on the path to doing good for others throughout their lives.

Brandy Norwood

#25. I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

Carmen Agra Deedy

#26. If you want to change a person, you've got to change the situation.

Philip Zimbardo

#27. Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Peter Lynch