Quotes About Community

Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society. Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained and efficient forces.

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.

If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.

What its children become, that will the community become.

Live and let live is not enough; live and help live is not too much.

Where our bread is concerned, it is a material matter. Where our neighbor's bread is concerned, it is a spiritual matter.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Sharing what you have is more important than what you have.

I was hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: I was naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

Charity begins at home, and usually stays there.

Make the world better.

He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

The most infectiously joyous men and women are those who forget themselves in thinking about others and serving others.

To devote a portion of one's leisure to doing something for someone else is one of the highest forms of recreation.

Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.