Quotes About Involvement

The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when u simply don't bother about that person!

Even now I can say I'd love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that.

I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you're doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.

One must not love oneself so much, as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life that history demands of us, and those that fend off danger will lose their lives.

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

If you don't like seeing pictures of violence towards animals being posted, you need to help stop the violence, not the pictures.

It's interesting that my neighbor Irv, who saw dogs so differently, knew all the kids and people on the block and could recite the family history of each house until about a decade ago. Now few of our neighbors can name more than a handful of people who live on the street. They have little to do with local government, and vote sporadically, at best. In the evenings and on weekends, they go their own ways. Their kids are repeatedly warned about talking to people they don't know.

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

Kids don't vote.

Putnam and Campbell put their findings bluntly: By many different measures religiously observant Americans are better neighbors and better citizens than secular Americans—they are more generous with their time and money, especially in helping the needy, and they are more active in community life.60

ham-and-eggs breakfast, the chicken's involved but the pig's committed.

once a week and doesn't do much when he is there.

We need to change our perception of the word volunteer. We can't see volunteer as a verb. We aren't looking for someone "to volunteer.

Are we creating spectators of the kingdom or participators and servants for the kingdom?" (The Youth Builder, 2001, Gospel Light, page 136)

I never go to the theatre. I'm just not interested in going to it. I'm interested only in doing it.

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.

With my own fair hands.

Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

Tell me and I'll forget,teach me and I will remember ,involve me and I will learn.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

If you are indifferent to a wrong, then you are part of it.