Quotes About Community

It is not the services we render them, but the services they render us, that attaches people to us.

It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.

Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.

In prosperity friends do not leave you unless desired, whereas in adversity they stay away of their own accord.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

One enemy is too many; a hundred friends too few.

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! You can select them at random, write to one, dine with one, visit one, or take your problems to one. There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.

It is great to have friends when one is young, but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.

If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.

Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Friends are a second existence.

Men cannot for long live hopefully unless they are embarked upon some great unifying enterprise, one for which they may pledge their lives, their fortunes and their honor.

You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.

If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Since good, the more Communicated, more abundant grows.

Gossip needs no carriage.

No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbour.