Quotes About Community

Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.

It's so much fun to interact together.

It's okay to be average, as long as you surround yourself with extraordinary people that you become the average of.

Prosperity is the opposite of greedy.

What is the purpose of life? To elevate all, big or small.

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.

Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

One mind is enough for a thousand hands.

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people.

One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.

If you don't like basketball and you're from Kentucky, they'll kick you out!

A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.

Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.

Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.

Inspirational and will challenge readers to get involved in the lives of others to make a difference. Thank you for sharing your wonderful insight and encouragement.

In a weird way, [hockey] is like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one.