Volunteers Quotes

“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“No one is ever a victim of life; we are all volunteering to grow.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Awards and recognition are not the purpose of life and not the goal of an activist. The heart of an activist usually redonates the money, or uses the accolades as a foot in the door for more activism and awareness. A plack on the wall won’t change the world; it only shows your devotion.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“She soon called a halt to the work. Judy's great success was that she stopped her helpers before they got tired.”
― maeve binchy, The Lilac Bus

“May you find help when you need it most.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“To retain our dignity, we must sometimes refuse to live life at any cost”
― Dario Spini, War, Community, and Social Change: Collective Experiences in the Former Yugoslavia

“Examples of goodness that know no ethnic, religious, racial, or political bounds are important documents of war, as they also represent an axis around which a healthy future can be constructed after the atrocities have halted.”
― Dario Spini, War, Community, and Social Change: Collective Experiences in the Former Yugoslavia

“A shared life is a sacred love.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I have what takes to get the job done.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“The more we serve, the more strength, we receive to keep the good deeds.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Personal Responsibility is when an individual volunteers to be in charge of duties, tasks and is ready to see to its fulfilment”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Life is a sacred shared-life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“We volunteer to work for the love and joy of service.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Serve, serve.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Life is service. Define your service.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“--Do you think he'll be careful, Michael?

--Being that it's a war, ma'am, that would sort of defeat the purpose.

--Yes. I suppose it would.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“The cure for cancer does not exist, yet, but I have created a serum that has successfully pushed cancer into remission. The next step is annihilating it completely from the body. All I need are some volunteers.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“He was back once more to the starting point: he must find money. Arms traffickers didn’t give their wares for nothing and 'volunteers' did not join up on the strength of promissory notes.”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

“With Lundquist directing, the volunteers worked for the next three days around the clock. Most were strangers to each other, drawn together unexpectedly, and worked together for hours, diligently and peacefully. The formed a human chain, passing the books hand over hand from one person the the next, through the smoky building and out the door. It was as if, in the urgent moment, the people of Los Angeles formed a living library. They created, for that short time, a system to protect and pass along shared knowledge, to save what we know for each other, which is what libraries do everyday.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

“With Lundquist directing, the volunteers worked for the next three days around the clock. Most were strangers to each other, drawn together unexpectedly, and worked together for hours, diligently and peacefully. The formed a human chain, passing the books hand over hand from one person the the next, through the smoky building and out the door. It was as if, in this urgent moment, the people of Los Angeles formed a living library. They created, for that short time, a system to protect and pass along shared knowledge, to save what we know for each other, which is what libraries do everyday.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

“First they warn everyone to wear a mask. Then we find out unless it's a special kind of mask it's not going to protect you at all."

"It's not just a question of beds. There's not enough linen, not enough gloves, gowns, hypodermic needles, disinfectant, meds, you name it. Not enough ambulances, not enough ventilators or other equipment. Hospitals are even running out of food."

"It's not like every other bad thing stopped happening to make room for the flu. People are still getting cancer and having heart attacks and strokes and road accidents. The idea that we could handle any kind of surge on top of that--whoever's fantasy that was, it was never going to happen."

"The retired workers they were depending on to take over for the workers out sick? Very few of those people ever showed. The volunteer doctors and nurses and the other helping hands--they aren't showing up, either. It's not like 9/11. There aren't any heroes rushing toward the danger. The danger is everywhere, and everyone's running scared."

"Let's face it, this is America. Anything that's bad for business, people don't want to hear. When it comes to money or doing the right thing, most people are going to choose money. Close up shop for months till they can make a new vaccine? How many businesses would still be alive after that?"

"This disaster proves what some of us have been saying about America all along: everything is broken.”
― Sigrid Nunez, Salvation City

“Wikipedia had to get strangers on the Internet to talk and cooperate. To do that, those strangers had to trust each other. They had to trust that others would not be abusive or uncivil to them. They had to trust that others would not change or erase their contributions without consideration or explanation. They had to trust that others would sincerely listen to what they had to say and really think about it. They had to trust that even when others didn’t agree with them and their views weren’t accepted, they would at least be treated fairly. Only if that trust between volunteers was established-only if there was internal trust-could Wikipedia even get off the ground.”
― Jimmy Wales, The Seven Rules of Trust By Jimmy Wales & The 5 Second Shift By Blair Yates 2 Books Collection Set