Volunteer Quotes

#1. Ragweed,wild oat,vetch,butcher grass,invaginate volunteer beans,all heads gently nodding in a morning breeze like a mother's soft hand on your cheek ...

David Foster Wallace

#2. Like many women, I stay active juggling many aspects of a very full life! I'm a busy mom. I also love to travel, garden, cook and volunteer at my kids school.

Jane Clayson

#3. My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.

Robert A. Heinlein

#4. A Georgia volunteer, afterward a colonel in the Confederate service, said: "I fought through the civil war and have seen men shot to pieces and slaughtered by thousands, but the Cherokee removal was the cruelest work I ever knew."34

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

#5. Think Positively.
Network well.
Eat healthy.
Work Smart.
Stay Strong.
Build faith.
Worry less.
Read more.
Be happy.
Volunteer freely.
Relax often.
Love always.
Live eternally
and you will see doors open to your favor.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#6. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

Robert Kennedy

#7. My answer seemed to please him, and he let it go. Matthew was teaching me not to over explain, to explain just enough to make him happy, and not dig the verbal hole deeper. Talking to children is like testifying in court, answer just what's asked, don't elaborate, and don't volunteer information.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#8. There's tons of information on the Internet, so if you type in cancer, they'll give you 15, 000 different options to get involved with cancer. It's very easy to get involved if you want to get involved, especially to volunteer your time.

Chelsea Handler

#9. From my early school days, I was brought up with the belief that we have a duty to use our talents, to volunteer and to make a contribution.

Michael Hintze

#10. As is natural for an academic, when I want to learn about something, I volunteer to teach a course on the subject.

Steven Weinberg

#11. If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.

Muhammad Ali

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

Richard Paul Evans

#13. We are 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear.

Norman Borlaug

#14. Those who participate in a genocide as well as those who merely look away rarely volunteer much in the way of anecdote or observation. Same with the heroic and the righteous. Usually it's only the survivors who speak-and often they don't want to talk much about it either. p. 75

Chris Bohjalian

#15. You only get to be a victim once. After that, you're a volunteer.

Naomi Judd

#16. People say to me all the time that I threw some money into some guy's coffee cup [by accident, thinking they were poor]. People do make the same sort of mistake. I've made attempts to volunteer that have been calamitous!

Nicole Holofcener

#17. I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others.

Debby Ryan

#18. A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.

Michel De Montaigne

#19. All anti-abortion protesters should be presented, on the spot, with an application to sign up as foster parents. They should also be given the names of children in their area in need of adoptive parents. And if they won't sign or volunteer, they should shut up.

Kurt Eichenwald

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

Susan J. Ellis

#21. The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#22. The goal of social media is to turn customers into a volunteer marketing army

Jay Baer

#23. It's not how high we jump off our feet in church, it's what we do with them when we hit the ground!

Tom Ridge

#24. Throughout my life, I've seen the difference that volunteering efforts can make in people's lives. I know the personal value of service as a local volunteer.

Jimmy Carter

#25. I can't work any harder. I can't do any more. I am literally just blown away and humbled by the volunteers and how hard they're working. I think they've got a sense that they're going to be part of something bigger than themselves.

John Kasich

#26. When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.

Bill Gates

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

Peter Drucker

#28. We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!

George H. W. Bush

#29. 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

#30. The main quality of leadership ... is courage ! If you can dream it, you can do it!

Walt Disney

#31. I live in a cottage and volunteer in the village shop.

Lisanne Falk

#32. I am possibly thinking about doing an Internet show in the future that will highlight political organizations that I seek out to let people know about them, volunteer opportunities, and donation opportunities.

Kathleen Hanna

#33. 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.

Ed Gillespie

#34. Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share your experiences, tell your stories, and inspire others along the way.

Blake Mycoskie

#35. 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.

John Shirley

#36. Are you a victim or volunteer in your unhappy, failing relationship.

Joanne Williams

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

Andy Stanley

#38. Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It's because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.

George Carlin

#39. Similarly, while prayer is frequently a person's first response to a disaster, it's often the least helpful. Instead of praying for disaster victims, it would be more helpful to donate blood, send donations or volunteer. These are actions that can actually have a positive effect on someone.

Armin Navabi

#40. Victim, volunteer or survivor... Which you are you? Its truly your choice!

Jose N. Harris

#41. Others first. Whatever your corporate mission, paint a clear and compelling picture that others can understand and embrace. State your mission in terms that appeal to your team's best instincts. Persuade and empower as if you are leading and mentoring volunteers.

Tony Dungy

#42. I have a radical thought," Meryl said. "Instead of heading for the hills with guns, why don't we try to find something like the Red Cross, and volunteer. Try to do something constructive.

Joe Haldeman

#43. When we go to different areas and look at doing period pieces and movies shot in other states and locations, even overseas, it's hard to carry 1700 volunteers from your church with you to do that. And so, we knew that there were going to be growing pains at some point.

Alex Kendrick

#44. But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

Alexander Pope

#45. We are all like one-winged angels. It is only when we help each other that we can fly.

Luciano De Crescenzo

#46. An all-volunteer army is best suited to fight the new wars of the 21st century.

George W. Bush

#47. 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.

Kofi Annan

#48. No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

Joseph Addison

#49. Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.

Warren Farrell

#50. I always knew that I would give back. My mother and my father both believe you have to work hard and give back. That's why I was a volunteer firefighter, that's why I worked in a homeless shelter. I always knew I'd give back, elective office or not.

Thomas Kean Jr.

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

John Noble Holcomb

#52. There's just nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer.

Randall Wallace

#53. Im happy to volunteer for the American Red Cross Celebrity Cabinet. The Red Cross is an organization that responds to those in need and it is an honor to help them with the lifesaving role they play everyday in communities nationwide.

Peyton Manning

#54. And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time

Franklin P. Adams

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

Edward Snowden

#56. There are these very poor communities on the outskirts of Cairo called Mokattam, where a lot of the garbage collectors live. I used to volunteer there, doing health and education work when I was younger and living in Egypt.

Jehane Noujaim

#57. Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.

Epictetus

#58. Sometimes during my set I invite volunteers up on stage to get speed-roasted and I'm worried that I may have hundreds of people rushing the stage all at once. Luckily I'm a black belt in karate and I can fend them off.

Jeff Ross

#59. You need to hit Monday ready to go ... To do that, you need weekends that rejuvenate you, rather than exhaust or disappoint you. Cross-training makes you a better athlete, and likewise, exercise, volunteer work, and spiritual activities make you a better worker.

Laura Vanderkam

#60. You can always push people around, but it's not a good idea. Better to let them volunteer information for reasons of their own. You get more that way.

Sue Grafton

#61. While helping hundreds of thousands of refugees, Red Cross volunteers undoubtedly heard stories of Nazi brutality and rumors of mass gassings and they noted those rumors and kept an eye out for any evidence of them, but they saw nothing to indicate that the rumors were true.

David Duke

#62. Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and on an opera make me seriously want to retire and find a volunteer job as a docent at the zoo explaining to schoolchildren where frogs go in the winter.

Garrison Keillor

#63. We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.

Mitt Romney

#64. 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.

Barbara Mikulski

#65. I'd volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.

Mohammad Hatta

#66. Imagine! People are not volunteering to go to foreign countries and die the way they used to! Imagine that!

Michael Badnarik

#67. Money poured in from all over the Arab world, particularly Saudi Arabia, which matched whatever the US sent, and volunteer fighters too, including a Saudi millionaire called Osama bin Laden.

Malala Yousafzai

#68. Often volunteer work leads to employment.

Billy Graham

#69. Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less.

Allen West

#70. I grew up in a small town in West Virginia called Kenova. It's the city where the plane crashed from Marshall University. I watched the mountain burn, and my cousins were the volunteer firemen. I was 6 years old at the time.

Brad D. Smith

#71. The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.

Barbara Bush

#72. I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.

Dalai Lama

#73. 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

#74. 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.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

#75. 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.

Tony Meloto

#76. It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#77. You could never demand intimacy -- you could only volunteer it.

Elizabeth A. Lynn

#78. You can also volunteer or freelance in certain fields to gain a feel for them and measure your response.

Kate White

#79. Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement.

Max Lucado

#80. Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to have everyone hate us, to pull the rug from underneath the feet of the Diaspora Jews, so that they will be forced to run to us crying. Even if it means blowing up one or two synagogues here and there, I don't care.

Ariel Sharon

#81. Without volunteers, we'd be a nation without a soul.

Rosalynn Carter

#82. We don't recruit volunteers; we release leaders. Volunteers do good things but leaders change the world.

Craig Groeschel

#83. There are no victims, only volunteers.

Robert Anthony

#84. Colonel Cathcart had courage and never hesitated to volunteer his men for any target available.

Joseph Heller

#85. If you interrupt her one more time, I assure you that the Queen of Hearts will have a willing volunteer for beheading. Do I make myself clear?"
-a' la russe

Julienne Russell

#86. But I thought that if people behaved like victims they would become victims, if people expected the worst to happen then it invariably did.

I could see now how wrong I was. Sometimes people don't volunteer to be victims and they become victims anyway.

Marian Keyes

#87. People forget that the church is bigger than China. It speaks more languages than the United Nations. It has more volunteers than all the NGOs in the world put together.

Rick Warren

#88. When Pearl Harbor was bombed, young Japanese-Americans, like all young Americans, rushed to their draft board to volunteer to fight for our country. That act of patriotism was answered with a slap in the face. We were denied service and categorized as enemy non-alien.

George Takei

#89. I want a normal girlfriend. Someone restful. You know anyone like that?"
"I'd volunteer if you were rich," I told him. "Like hugely rich. I could be restful for massive sums of money."
"Flattered. But no.

Karen Joy Fowler

#90. Listen to positive music, watch positive videos or movies, hang out with positive, upbeat people. The last thing a blue mood need is more blues. Don't be volunteer victim; be a fighter.

Les Brown

#91. 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

#92. Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like. I was watching my daughter ride horses this weekend and that is also a bit old fashioned but fun. I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it.

Bill Gates

#93. I always begin with a source of inspiration that comes from nature. The story comes from my research, volunteering, and meeting the people involved in that story world. I am an intuitive writer and an image, sound, experience can all inspire a scene or a plot twist!

Mary Alice Monroe

#94. I wondered if I'd ever be nice enough to volunteer for anything. I was hoping not.

Sue Grafton

#95. From nine on I was forced to camp every summer. Not a volunteer. I played with the wrong kids so they made me go to camp to straighten me out.

Bruce Dern

#96. Volunteering is a window into the passions of the soul.

Patrick Dixon

#97. By the time of my ninth birthday, I had become a bit of a socialist, as I am said by conservative colleagues to be to this day. I went on within the next few years to volunteer as an envelope stuffer for the American Labor Party, and my political thinking has not shifted measurably since that time.

Sherwin B. Nuland

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

Rick Strassman

#99. So off had gone John to the wars again. But he had not remained for long in the position of a humble volunteer. Colonel Clifton, commanding the 1st Regiment of Dragoons, no sooner heard that Crazy Jack was back then he enrolled him as an extra aide-de-camp.

Georgette Heyer

#100. I'm a born liar myself and I know how it's done. You stick as close to the truth as you can. You pretend to volunteer a few bits of information, but the facts are all carefully selected for effect.

Sue Grafton