It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion to the project that cannot be found in a hired crew.
One person can make a difference.
Which is more subversive-and corrosive-to believe in altruism or to see it simply as a cloak of self interest? Even if altruism did not exist, it would be necessary to believe in it. Pessimists in power are prone to despotism.
The work of volunteers impacts on all our lives, even if we are not aware of it.
The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.
It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.
Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.
My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.
In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community.
We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!
We have to do what we can to help wherever and whenever it is possible for us to help.
Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.
So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.
When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.
A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.
If you can't go where people are happier, try to make people happier where you are.
The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen. ' This is our republic. Let us keep it!
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.
A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel.