Serving The Community Quotes:

We cannot live for ourselves alone.

- Herman Melville

topic: Invisible Threads, Serving The Community

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

- Aesop

source: Aesop (1963). “Aesop's fables”, Cliffs Notes

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Making A Difference In The World, Joy Happiness

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Marriage, Making A Difference In The World, Inspirational Charity

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

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Service, Acts Of Kindness

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Life, Greatness, Humanity, Individualistic, Kings And Love

You only need a heart full of grace

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Heart, Grace, Needs, Making A Difference In The World, Inspirational Charity

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

- Unknown

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Empowering Women

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

- Booker T. Washington

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Lift Me Up, Inspiring Customer Service

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Helping Others, Making A Living, Source Of Life

Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.

- Vaclav Havel

topic: Peace, Responsibility, Names, Moral Duty, Rights And Responsibilities

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Charity, Philanthropy, Inspiring Volunteer, Leadership And Service, Community Service

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

- Rudolf Steiner

topic: Reflection, Mirrors, Community, Social Life, Community Building

He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

- Confucius

topic: Business, Own Business, Inspirational Team Building, Community Service, Good Service

There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.

- Dorothy L. Sayers

topic: Community, Way, Facts, Serving The Community

What we saw was that the Ferguson Police Department in conjunction with the municipality saw traffic stops, arrests, tickets as a revenue generator, as opposed to serving the community, and that it systematically was biased against African-Americans in that city who were stopped, harassed, mistreated, abused, called names, fined.

- Barack Obama

source: Remarks by the President in Town Hall at Benedict College, Columbia, SC, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 06, 2015.

topic: Cities, Names, Community, Ferguson, Mistreated

Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means serving the community instead of contenting oneself. We have a word for the basic disposition which underlies conduct of this kind in contrast to egoism and selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' we mean only the ability of the individual to sacrifice himself for the whole, for his fellow men.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Mean, Sacrifice, Men, Egoism, German Language

In setting up a business under the name and meaning of the Golden Rule, I was publicly binding myself, in my business relations, to a principle which had been a real and intimate part of my family upbringing. Our idea was to make money and build business through serving the community with fair dealing and honest value.

- James Cash Penney

topic: Real, Names, Ideas, Serving The Community