Quotes About Voluntary Service

#1. I find that the critics of voluntary service are all too often those who are prepared to accept such services when they require them but deride them with cynicism and scepticism when they see others helping and being helped.

Eva Hart

#2. Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. The genius of the tradition as it has developed in America is the unique combination of giving and voluntary service in behalf of independent organizations and institutions devoted to the public interest.

Robert L. Payton

#4. Philanthropy is the principal social institution that provides instruction in voluntary service.

Robert L. Payton

#5. The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#6. And my daughter really likes Justin Bieber, so I think she'll have fun watching him. But I think Rihanna is the perfect match for the Victoria's Secret show because she's really beautiful, she's really sexy, and she's really talented.

Alessandra Ambrosio

#7. I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.

Milton Babbitt

#8. But no, there weren't any maybes. Wealth meant victory and victory was the only reality.

Charles Bukowski

#9. Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.

Robert A. Heinlein

#10. Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service.

Chen Shui-bian

#11. Discerning our personal gifts is essential if we are to experience harmony in our lives.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#12. Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter, it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges.

John Mackey

#13. In life, you achieve nirvana when you learn to love unconditionally.

Debasish Mridha

#14. The militia is a voluntary force not associated or under the control of the States except when called out; [ when called into actual service] a permanent or long standing force would be entirely different in make-up and call.

Alexander Hamilton

#15. It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.

Mal Peet

#16. Our reason tries in vain to show them to us; we refuse to see them till we find them in the way of our interests." Prince

Andrew Lang

#17. Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Victor Hugo