Best Community Service Quotes

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

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.

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

You only need a heart full of grace

Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.

Because religious institutions are not afraid to talk about love as a goal, they are likely to be more effective at providing community services.

It’s worth noting that you can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. You can spend your life on Wall Street and be a hero

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.

Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community.

My kids are obviously growing up very privileged, but I want them to have a servant’s heart. We do community service as a family, and I also call them out on things like getting impatient when they stand in line – because they hardly ever have to. But that’s just the reality of what they were born into.

There is no community service in Seinfeld. But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

I am grateful to be able to participate in the adult citation program where I will complete community service.

This is an extremely foolish and stupid and idiotic kind of attitude – to expect theatres to make money. Do the public schools make money? Do libraries make money? Does the zoo make money? D o the sewers make money? It’s a community service.

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.

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.

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.

Through that organization [Community Service Organization], I met Cesar Chavez. We had this common interest about farm workers. We ultimately left CSO to start the National Farm Workers Organization, which became the United Farm Workers. I was very blessed to have learned some of the skills of basic grassroots organizing from Mr. Ross and then be able to put that into practice in both CSO and the United Farm Workers.

I was very fortunate to have known Fred Ross Sr., who was organizing the Community Service Organization (CSO) way back in the late 50’s and early 60’s. I was able to work with him.

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.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

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

People didn’t know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered sex offender and I’d just been released from prison and was being forced to do community-service work. I was a murderer, an arsonist – all these horrific things had been projected on me because no one knew what to make of this white guy who showed up and made toast at 5 o’clock every morning.

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

Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are learning in the classroom. It enables them to apply academic disciplines to practical, everyday problems. In the process, it provides a compelling answer to the adolescent’s perennial question, ‘Why do I need to learn this stuff?

My understanding from talking to a lot of people in the business has been that it used to be that a newspaper was considered a community service. Now they’re being run as profit centers, and they’re trying to get pretty high profit margins. As a result, investigative reporting has been seen as a problem.

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

Go home. Let me do my community service.

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.

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

There is no higher religion than human service.

I get to cry to Barbara Walters, when things don’t go my way. I’ll get community service no matter which laws I break.

Great news! Hosting Oscars counts five hours toward my community service!

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.