Quotes About Community

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Only that which was effective for the first of this community will be effective for the last of it

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

Allah the Exalted loves him who forgoes worldly life, the Angels love him who rejects the vices, and the Muslims love him who gives up greediness in respect of the Muslims.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.

Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.

The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people

If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

Transformed people transform people.

We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition.

If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.

By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.

The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room.

Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.

A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.

Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.