Volunteer Quotes · Page 4

I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.

— Bill Gates

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

— Bel Kaufman

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

— Dick Gregory

I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.

— Rachelle Lefevre

Never underestimate your ability to make someone else's life better - even if you never know it.

— Greg Louganis

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

— Susan J. Ellis

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

— Anonymous

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

— Bobby Scott

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

— Alexander Pope

I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then…

— Gunter Grass

I'm not really volunteering for no family films. I really like the sweet spot of being able to be edgy and controversial.

— Romany Malco

Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice,…

— Robert Kennedy

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

— Richelle Mead

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

— Craig Groeschel

The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for…

— T. E. Lawrence

Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to kill as many Arabs as necessary, to…

— Ariel Sharon

I am a pet person. My dog actually lives in Georgia now. But I work with animal trainers and pets quite often.…

— Alyson Stoner

Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a…

— Epictetus

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only…

— Aberjhani

There is scarcely a town or school in Russia from which boys have not run away to the war. Hundreds of girls…

— Stephen Graham

Others first. Whatever your corporate mission, paint a clear and compelling picture that others can understand and embrace. State your mission in…

— Tony Dungy

I used to do volunteer work in poor areas of Cairo, and people would gather their money together to get a satellite…

— Jehane Noujaim

When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me…

— Dee Dee Myers

There are many ways of seeing the world. You can hang upside down from a meteor, volunteer to be the fourth stage…

— Michael Palin

Do something about your life now. You know you are sick and tired of being sick and tired. Don't just think about…

— Les Brown

If you don't know what career you'd change to, I've come to believe in starting with your values. What do you care…

— Marty Nemko

There's something profoundly liberating about giving, yet we don't do it often enough. It begs the question: why not? For some of…

— Jen Lilley

There are lots of grounds for hope in Israeli society. We are seeing Israelis getting fed up with war, looking for solutions.…

— Uri Avnery

I've learned that the universe doesn't care what our motives are, only our actions. So we should do things that will bring…

— Wendy Mass

Learning is available at the library for free; under a tree with a dog-eared paperback; at a job with a boss who…

— Michael Ellsberg

Don't test God and make some tests for him. That doesn't make any sense. Besides that he can do anything, above everything…

— Lacey Mosley

I mean, let's take the average spouse. You know, you show up in an employer's, you know, office, and it's shown that…

— Michelle Obama

The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.

— Boris Johnson

Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.

— Cary Grant

I believe we are put on this earth to be of service. It's how I find meaning in my life. And it's…

— Dana Delany

“The truist indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.”

— Richard Paul Evans

We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.

— Cecile Richards

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

— Franklin P. Adams

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

— Benjamin Walker

When I was younger I used to volunteer at the Mother Teresa charities in India.

— Laila Rouass