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Quotes About Volunteers

A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.
~ Ben Salmon
The volunteers displaying high levels of psychopathic traits released almost four times as much dopamine in response to the stimulant as did their non-psychopathic counterparts.
~ Kevin Dutton
This, as far as I can discover, was the first concrete step taken in Wales towards reintroducing an extinct mammal. Here, at Blaeneinion, at the source of the stream which runs through the stunning Cwm Einion into the Dyfi estuary, a group of volunteers had enclosed three acres of land around an old carp pond. People had been talking about returning the beaver to Wales for years. Now, at last, something was happening.
~ George Monbiot
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
~ William James
The Playboy Foundation provided $10,000—and the use of Playboy's offices as an assembly line, where volunteers, mostly senior citizens, were provided with foldout tables and free coffee and sandwiches while building the first of these revolutionary kits. "I took a lot of flak from the women's movement—but too bad," Goddard says. "If it was Penthouse or Hustler, no. But Playboy? Please, give me a break.
~ T. Christian Miller
Let me tell you. The military accepts everyone who volunteers, assuming they meet the basic requirements. That means, at one end of the spectrum, you get people who would just as soon cut your throat as shake your hand. And at the other end of the spectrum, you get people so timid they wouldn't hurt a fly. And what the military does is teach both of them how and when to apply violence.
~ Christopher Paolini
In a certain sense I could agree with the Futurists that war is the only hygiene of the world, except for one little correction: It would be, if only volunteers were allowed to wage it.
~ Umberto Eco
In a certain sense I could agree with the Futurists that war is the only hygiene of the world, except for one little correction: It would be, if only volunteers were allowed to wage it. Unfortunately war also involves the reluctant, and therefore it is morally inferior to spectator sports.
~ Umberto Eco
organizational charts and well-defined legal structures. What is the relationship between the quite traditional nonprofit corporation headquartered in San Francisco and the free, open, multilingual, online, global community of volunteers? Is the "institution" the sustaining organization, the
~ Cathy N. Davidson
En una iglesia a la que le falta alineacion, todos compiten por el mismo espacio, los mismos recursos, los mismos voluntarios y el mismo tiempo dentro del calendario.
~ Thom S. Rainer
He lingered until the 21st of July, 1796, when he expired. The interest which the death of Burns excited was intense. All differences were forgotten; his genius only was thought of. On the 26th of the same month he was conveyed to the grave, followed by about ten thousand individuals of all ranks, many of whom had come from distant parts of the country to witness the solemnity. He was interred with military honors by the Dumfries volunteers, to which body he had belonged.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Asking for volunteers always surfaces a number of folks who love God but don't have the relational skills needed to lead a group. That's because when it comes to self-awareness, socially challenged people don't have any. Most think they're pretty good at getting along with others. Couple that with their high need for attention and affirmation, and you have a bunch of people who are quick to volunteer and hard to turn away.
~ Larry Osborne
Frankly, not many people show up. But that's a sign of high trust, not low commitment (the measure of commitment is best found in our high number of volunteers, not in how few show up for a boring business meeting).
~ Larry Osborne
In the weeks after the flood, the Humane Society of the United States organized the biggest animal rescue in history. Hundreds of volunteers from all over the country came to New Orleans. They broke into boarded-up houses, plucked dogs and cats from rooftops and trees, and even rescued pigs and goats. Many animals were reunited with their owners. Others were sent to shelters across America to be adopted by new families.
~ Lauren Tarshis
If you are teaching in a free-range setting, your learners are probably volunteers, and probably want to be in your classroom. The exercise therefore isn't how to motivate them, but how to not demotivate them. Unfortunately, you can do this by accident much more easily than you might think.
~ Greg Wilson
The right half of the table shows you data from 2001 on spiral CT screening on more than five thousand volunteers, some of whom smoked, some of whom did not.13 This study measured the rate of lung cancer diagnosis in smokers and nonsmokers. What it shows you is that with the advent of spiral CT, nonsmokers have about the same risk of lung cancer as smokers. It sure looks like the use of spiral CT has made cigarette smoking much better for you.
~ H. Gilbert Welch
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
~ Thomas Jefferson
As the political scientist Ian Bremmer wrote in the run-up to the U.S. elections of 2020, victims seek saviors, and there is never a shortage of volunteers.
~ Thomas M. Nichols
Jackson busied himself with the volunteers as they passed out flyers about the new voter ID laws that would go into effect in 2016 and signed up people to drive voters to the polls. Many of the elderly people they spoke to that morning were angry.
~ Cheris Hodges
Well, certainly, it seems that an Officer of Volunteers has many responsibilities... all work and no pay...
~ Punch, 1890
I want to thank and pay tribute to all of our volunteers — those dedicated people who believe in all work and no pay.
~ Robert Orben
Volunteers are paid in six figures — S-M-I-L-E-S.
~ Gayla LeMaire, unverified
Volunteers wear work-boots but leave a trail of angel footprints.
~ Terri Guillemets
Angels don't get paid even though theirs is some of the most important work around. Ditto for volunteers.
~ Terri Guillemets