"I am only one, But still I am one."
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"He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own."
"My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up."
"You don’t see many of these white anti-abortion women volunteering to have any black fetuses transplanted into their uterus’s, do you? No, you don’t see them adopting a whole lot of crack babies, do you? No, that might be something Christ would do."
"The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free."
"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."
"Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards."
"Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow. I have no kindness for you, and know you have as little for me. I will not, therefore, take any pains upon your account . . . Here then I leave you to labor alone; you treat me in the same manner. The seasons change, and both of us lose our harvests for want of mutual confidence and security."
"There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together."
"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?"
"Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like."
"You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too."
"The main quality of leadership..........is courage ! If you can dream it, you can do it!"
"Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself."
"Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions."
"Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it."
"If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever."
"Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths."
"Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work."
"In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only charity a progressive sends is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is."