Volunteer Quotes

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

Dalai, Basis, Lama

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
Julius Caesar

Men, Patience, Pain

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

Respect, Help, Give

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

Treat, Fact, Accept

And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.
Michelle Obama

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.
Gillian Anderson

Work, Time, Yourself

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.
Stonewall Jackson

Country, Fighting, Soldier

Research has shown that people who volunteer often live longer.
Allen Klein

Live, Often, Research

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.
Madeleine Albright

Work, Time, Women

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

Integrity, Country, Honor

Love is not a volunteer thing.
Samuel Richardson

I catch myself judging myself as that 13-year-old boy, who, of course, rightfully points out that he is only a child. And my membership - well, I was drafted into the Waffen-SS and didn't exactly volunteer, which was just as idiotic. I wanted to be on the submarines and then ended up with the Waffen-SS.
Gunter Grass

Judging, Wanted, Child

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

Work, Good, Great

Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.
George H. W. Bush

Work, Time, Give

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

Politics, Time, Best

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
Ramsey Clark

Felt, Duty, Asked

We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.
Jennifer Garner

Education, Lucky, Taken

I do a lot for PETA. I do a lot of things I think are really important, I volunteer at school and I'm still amazed I can pay my bills because I feel like I don't work that much, I really don't.
Pamela Anderson

Work, School, Important

A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games.
Ayelet Waldman

Good, Art, Mother

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.
Jaron Lanier

Acceptance, Social, Labor

I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.
Deidre Hall

Love, Work, Time

In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.
Sargent Shriver

Peace, Person, Problems

Working in an underdeveloped land for two or three years, the volunteer will often find that his work is routine and full of frustration.
Sargent Shriver

Work, Two, Find

I came when I was in high school as part of a student exchange program with the Jewish Community Center in New Jersey, to Ramat Eliyahu. You come and volunteer for five weeks at a day camp. I was a teenager - I couldn't really appreciate it as much, and now I come back as an adult and I can really get the flavor of the city, and I love it.
Zach Braff

Love, School, High

Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.
Lee Haney

Kids, Times, Parent

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

Great, Through, High

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.
Bobby Scott

Nothing, Fire, Local

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

Money, Anyone, Summer

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

Time, Morning, Gave

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.
Gunter Grass

Thought, Year, Group

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