Quotes About Volunteer

I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.

My first introduction to South Africa's struggle for freedom came when I was just 17. I had volunteered to speak in my mother's stead at a United Nations forum on South Africa because she was unable to attend on that occasion.

I do believe that by virtue of having a volunteer army, you are going to have men and women who decide to serve and others who decide to pursue different careers.

At 13, I volunteered at the radio station. My first job was cleaning up when I was 17, and before I really started, they fired people for stealing station equipment, and I was on the air.

Today those who stand, almost alone, against the Jihadis are young American soldiers, sailors, airmen, Guardsmen, and Marines. We should thank God that they still volunteer to serve.

Fifteen-year-old females don't have to have their parents' consent to volunteer to be colonists. We're the ideal age for reproduction, and are assumed to be dumb enough to volunteer.

Those who can, do. Those who can do more, volunteer.

The four most important words in the English language are: "How can I help?"

I'm also an Army brat, an Army wife, a community volunteer and your neighbor. I'm passionate about my family, my community, my work and by the grace of God I happen to have a professional outlet where all of that comes together.

But why would anyone—officer, seaman, or scientist—volunteer for such a risky and difficult mission in the Arctic?

The truth is that you can never be sure if you have decided on the right thing until the party is over, and by then it is too late to go back and change your mind, which is why the world is filled with people doing terrible things and wearing ugly clothing, and so few volunteers who are able to stop them.

volunteer fire department?

In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.

Fortunately in my work there's always a choice: I can choose to do it willingly or unwillingly.

My mate asked me "What do you think of voluntary work?" I said "I wouldn't do it if you paid me."

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

I do a lot of stuff. I mean, you know, charity work.

The vast majority of the American people are hard-working taxpayers who take responsibility for their families, go to work every day, they pay their mortgage on time, they volunteer in the community.

One of the bedevilling factors of the Volunteer campaign was land hunger, a desire on the part of some unscrupulous people to profit from the disorders of the time.

it would be moral to force someone to do something which they would volunteer for if they were a moral person in possession of all of the facts.

Contribute to good causes.

I would love to go help baby sea turtles back into the ocean after hatching in Mexico.

Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid.

I've always had a huge dream of opening an animal shelter.