Community Service Quotes

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life.

It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons should be complemented by work outside the classroom. Service-learning does just that, tying community service to academic learning.

He who Serves his fellows is, of all his fellows, greatest

Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.

I read that nine out of 10 women fantasize about having an unknown man leap through their bedroom window at night and make mad, passionate love to them. Who would think with those odds, I would now be facing 150 hours of community service.

Have fun, because that's what life is all about.

During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff.

The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.

The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.

When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who's in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you're investing your time in that.

The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value.

Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.

There is no higher religion than human service.

Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning.

Love has to be put into action and that action is service.

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

You only need a heart full of grace

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources.

They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway.

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.

The more we increase the active participation and partnership with young people, the better we serve them. ... And the more comprehensively we work with them as service partners, the more we increase our public value to the entire community.

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.

Community service has taught me all kinds of skills and increased my confidence.

You go out there and think on your feet, work with others and create something from nothing. That's what life's all about.

We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.

Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.

Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.

Go home. Let me do my community service.

After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.

I have always admired men and women who used their talents to serve the community, and who were highly respected and admired for their efforts and sacrifices, even though they held no office whatsoever in government or society.

The threats are coming to this country, which will, of course, increase the massive industry known as the anti-terrorism industry, and crush our civil liberties and civil rights, And it's devouring our priorities here in communities all over the country which are in such disrepair and are so neglected in terms of public works and public services.

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.

The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.

I don't think any change in the world has been more significant than the change in the status of women. . . . A woman's world was her home, her family, and perhaps a little community service. Today, a woman's world is as broad as the universe.

The most successful marketer becomes part of the lives of their followers.

They follow back. They wish happy birthday. They handle problems their customers have with products or service. They grow their businesses and brands by involving themselves in their own communities.

Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.