Quotes About Community

Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.

The Christian faith is a singing faith, and a good way to express it and share it with others is in community singing.

In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it's the one.

There are always going to be jerks in the world . . . [but] there are more good people on this earth than bad people, and the good people watch out for each other and take care of each other.

Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.

In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best.

Doing good for the community is something that should be a part of who you are. The more you get, the more you should give back.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.

Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

I think that it's important to have good people around you, like my friends.

Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you

If I could, I would live in Houston, and I would encourage any comic starting out looking for a good place to develop to move there.

Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.

Mostly, though, I dream of good things...I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets..again and music will play in the...houses and kites will fly in the skies.

I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.

Good people are found, not changed.

When an American asks for the cooperation of his fellow citizens, it is seldom refused; and I have often seen it afforded spontaneously and with great good will.

Forbear, thou great good husband, little ant.

That was part of the whole original concept. We were thinking, it's off-season, let's do a really fun, local-oriented event, raise money for good causes and bring some music to the valley.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.