Community Quotes
Sad Quotes about Community

Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller

Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde

No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt

Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am at Peace with myself,
my family, my community, and the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning
- Mitch Albom

If you doubt the virtue in self-honor,
remember what the flight attendant says,
"Put your own oxygen mask on first."
You are of no use to anyone else
if you have not taken care of your own needs first -
this includes your own emotional,
as well as physical, well-being.
In addition, your greatest value to your children,
your family, your friends, and your community
is the example you set, leading a great life that inspires
those around you to emulate your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)

A small compassionate act enlarges the scope of community.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A working definition of Honor is,
"respect or esteem that has been earned."
Contemplate that for a moment.
It would be very special to earn the respect and esteem
of our family, our friends, our co-workers, our community, wouldn't it?
If anything, it is of even more moment to honor yourself.
Those who are successful and happy earn their own
self-respect and self-esteem.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our opportunity is always to make the choice for Joy.
To see the world with new eyes - open eyes - loving eyes.
To choose compassion and understanding -
for ourselves, our family, our friends,
our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful
member of the world community.
- Adam Schiff

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection
of isolated family units.
- Valerie Solanas

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master,
a mistress, and two slaves, making in all,
two.
- Ambrose Bierce

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.
I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
- Abraham Lincoln

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into
a community and find people who need him.
- Charlie Byrd

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor
is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
- Andrew Carnegie

The meaning of the Street in all ways and at all times
is the need for sharing life with others and the search for community.
- Virginia Hamilton

Security for agriculture merits serious concern by
not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole.
The risk to the U.S.
food supply and overall economy is real.
- Pat Roberts

I thought our community should have a deep dialogue
to make black America better.
I believe if we make black America better,
we make all of America better.
- Tavis Smiley

We measured our success not just by how much money we made,
but by how much we contributed to the community.
It was a two-part bottom line.
- Jerry Greenfield

I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure
our nation's intelligence community.
- Ted Stevens

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community,
and the smaller characters are important to the story.
- David Morse

The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that
promotes peace through helping countless individuals
who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve.
- Solomon Ortiz

When a language creates as it does a community within the present,
it does so only by courtesy of a community between
the present and the past.
- Christopher Ricks

It's up to the community now to decide if they want to keep this team.
- Mario Lemieux

People are looking to have more meaning in their lives.
It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.
- John Doerr

I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem.
These are people that everyone in the community could relate to...
people who mean something special to us.
- James De La Vega

Memphis is a great town, man.
There's a great musical community here.
I'm trying to fit in.
- Charles Moore

Rather than bringing me closer to others,
the time that I spend online isolates me from the most
important people in my life,
my family, my friends, my neighbourhood,
my community.
- Clifford Stoll

Education is for improving the lives of others and
for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
- Marian Wright Edelman

It's also important for those who promote those issues
within the white community -
the somewhat privileged community -
to talk about issues affecting people of color.
- Danny Glover

Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the
moving and relocation business.
I did that for 10 years, am still doing it.
And I do some work for the Cubs, in community relations.
- Ernie Banks

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times,
prospered, and brought prosperity to the community,
until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.
- John Buchanan Robinson

Community action is as valuable a principle on the
international level as it has been domestically.
- Barney Frank

I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities.
We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation
and programs of outreach in the community.
- Samuel Wilson

I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential
candidates forthrightly address issues of importance
to the African-American community.
- Ken Mehlman

Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in
the values and principles of the international community,
especially if our personal identity is denied.
- Boris Trajkovski

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer.
I was just one of the many workers trying to do my
part to help the community.
- Jimmy Smits

A community is a group of people who have come together,
and they work and they live to try and improve the
standard of living and quality of life -
and I don't mean money.
- William Baldwin

I've become this sort of icon for the gay community.
I don't like the position.
- Sandra Bernhard

There are things that you can do today that,
years ago, there was nothing.
The community today needs to know that with MRI and
the current medications the view is good.
- Teri Garr

We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to
the community by the institution of premiums,
held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.
- Joseph Lancaster

Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community,
and - above all - nothing seems impossible.
- Catherine Helen Spence

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity,
that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back,
but a sense of security and support.
- Wentworth Miller

I don't think President Obama has been that revolutionary
in reaching out to ethnic communities.
President Reagan did a lot for the black community
that people don't realize.
- Terrence Howard

You can keep it to yourself, but you could also call
a support team like the team at MS LifeLines.
They are there to support the MS community and give good advice.
- Teri Garr

What standards are upheld by the scientific community
affect the community internally,
and also affect its relations with society at large,
including Congress.
- Serge Lang

Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people,
but when he was committing those crimes,
the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.
- Bianca Jagger

Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important
the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens,
but also its disabled workers.
- Grace Napolitano

The community which has neither poverty nor riches
will always have the noblest principles.
- Plato

I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community,
don't go out on strike because then there's no work
and no potential of work.
- Dick Wolf

The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism
from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.
- Gijs de Vries

We felt like we just got surrounded by this community of friends.
- Scott Wolf

In every community, whether large or small,
there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times.
- Donna Shalala

For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.
- Anatoly Chubais

The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community.
- Kimberly Crenshaw

Everybody in the black community must organize,
and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not,
but not until we are organized.
- H. Rap Brown

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library.
The only entrance requirement is interest.
- Lady Bird Johnson

Community cannot for long feed on itself;
it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond,
their unknown and undiscovered brothers.
- Howard Thurman

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

You need a whole community to raise a child.
I have raised two children, alone.
- Toni Morrison

There can be no vulnerability without risk;
there can be no community without vulnerability;
there can be no peace,
and ultimately no life, without community.
- M. Scott Peck

We will emerge stronger as a diverse community;
the area will be rebuilt with life around the clock,
new buildings, restaurants, places of entertainment.
- George Pataki

The idea of the European community is never face a war again.
- Nana Mouskouri

We must continue to have voting rights in the state,
not to politicize this, but they must have a voice
in the rebuilding effort in the community from which
they have been displaced.
- Marc Morial

If your support the community, they will support you.
- Jerry Greenfield

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty
one is a menace to the community.
- Brigham Young

It was in our power to set high price for our blood,
a price too high for the Arab community,
the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying.
- Moshe Dayan