Quotes About Community

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Being a good police officer is one of the most difficult, dangerous, idealistic jobs in the world.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.

For me the best thing about winning an award is when the people cheer for your win. When you can see that the people are really happy that you are winning something, that's the most reward thing in the world.

Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.

Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.

Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered.

One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.

Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.

I can still remember watching Italy win the 1982 World Cup. I was just an eight-year-old kid in Naples, my hometown, watching the games with a bunch of people in the houses of relatives and friends. I can recall that when Italy scored, we would shout and hug, even though we did not all know each other.

When there is a World Cup the world stops, the country stops, everyone is hugging each other, whether old or young, everyone stops just to enjoy the football.