Quotes About Community

Volunteers are love in motion!

God has not called us to see through each other, but to see each other through.

The four most important words in the English language are: "How can I help?"

Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.

Service to others is the rent we pay for our room on Earth.

The designated driver — a friend for life!

We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody — a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns — bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

You have not been abandoned. You are never alone, except by your own choice.

I grew up in a very celebratory town. We celebrate everything, from life to death and everything in between. So a lot of dramatics come into my aesthetic. And I'm an actor, so that adds more to the dramatic – I don't mean over-the-top. The main thing is never to be boring.

People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don't think that's true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.

I'm tired of being alone, and fighting my battles alone.

I'm also an Army brat, an Army wife, a community volunteer and your neighbor. I'm passionate about my family, my community, my work and by the grace of God I happen to have a professional outlet where all of that comes together.

I want to help transgender individuals who might be struggling realize that they have to love themselves and stay true to who they are because if they keep moving forward, and keep a positive attitude, then things will get better.

We can't have war between black men and black women, because no one can be free if one half of the mind of the people is tied up in conflict. It's going to have to be both of us or none of us.

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.

It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without it we cannot know who we are, why we are here, or where we can go. Without a common past to live out of we become aimless and wandering individuals instead of a pilgrim people.

Business must be run at a profit…, else it will die. But when any one attempts to run a business solely for profit and thinks not at all of the service to the community, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.

The city-state was the means by which the Greek consciously strove to make the life both of the community and of the individual more excellent than it was before.

Look at nature. A single bee cannot really do much. But you put a group of bees together and they can form a hive. A colony of bees that work in harmony. Each one doing its part. Some bees collect pollen. Some bees tend to the hive. Some bees guard the hive. Some bees tend to the nursery. Together they make a lot of honey.

Separation is an illusion, we are all in this together

Value in the greater good. The value in someone doing something for the greater good, isn't in the fact that they did something for the greater good. It is in the realization that of all the choices they had, they choose to do something for the greater good. They choose to be part of something bigger than themselves. Their choice is love.

We shine the brightest when we help others do the same. The result is a beautiful night sky