Community Development Quotes:

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Justice, Long, Community, Social Responsibility, Spiritual Community

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

topic: Encouragement, Freedom, Business, Way In Life, Social Good

The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.

- Stephanie Tubbs Jones

topic: Block, Cutting, Cities, Community Development

In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities.

- Spencer Bachus

topic: Block, Government, Community, Community Development, Housing

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

- Marshall McLuhan

source: "Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds" by Daniel A. Vallero, (p. 367), 2005.

topic: Motivational, Nature, Past, Social Environment, Inspirational Earth

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Justice And Injustice, Injustice Anywhere, Interconnected World, Clamor

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Positive Thinking, Optimism, Want, Daily Work, Social Responsibility

School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign finance, even simple human happiness - all are demonstrably affected by how (and whether) we connect with our family and friends and neighbours and co-workers.

- Robert D. Putnam

topic: Suicide, School, Simple, Census, Clinical Depression

What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like.

- Susan George

topic: Jobs, Community, Needs, Service Providers, Community Development

Some foreign investors accuse us of being unfair to shareholders by using our resources for community development. Yes, this is money that could have made for dividend payouts, but it also is money that's uplifting and improving the quality of life of people in the rural areas where we operate and work. We owe them that.

- Ratan Tata

topic: Uplifting, People, Community, Rural Areas, Community Development

Morphlabs is excited about the OpenStack release of Essex. We believe that this release positions OpenStack to become the foundation for next generation dynamic cloud infrastructure.  We are building a fully-converged private platform around Essex, leveraging best-of-breed cloud building blocks to deliver a high-performance, flexible solution. This release marks a major a proof point of OpenStack’s commitment to open community development and pluggable APIs, which benefits the entire cloud ecosystem.

- Winston Damarillo

topic: Block, Believe, Commitment, Essex, Community Development