Building Bonds: Quotes Celebrating Community

Welcome to our vibrant hub of community wisdom! Dive into a tapestry of inspiration with our curated collection of quotes about community. Whether you seek motivation for social change, teamwork, or simply embracing togetherness, discover timeless words that celebrate the power of unity. Let these quotes ignite your spirit and strengthen your bonds within the beautiful tapestry of community.

Inspirational Quotes About Community

There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about. – Margaret J. Wheatley

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it. – Marianne Williamson

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members. – Coretta Scott King

Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much – Helen Keller

If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. – African Proverb

Some people think they are in community, but they are only in proximity. True community requires commitment and openness. It is a willingness to extend yourself to encounter and know the other. -David Spangler

The purpose of life is not to be happy, but to matter – to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. – Leo Rosten

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. – Kurt Vonnegut

Heroes didn’t leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn’t wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else’s. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back. – Jodi Picoult

It only takes one person to mobilize a community and inspire change. Even if you don’t feel like you have it in you, it’s in you. You have to believe in yourself. People will see your vision and passion and follow you. – Teyonah Parris

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. – Goethe

Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they’re priceless. – Sherry Anderson

Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you. – Shannon L. Alder

But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. – Bell Hooks

I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person’s life is the affect they have on others. – Steve Nash

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap. – Ani DiFranco

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference. – Jane Fonda

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community… Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own. – Cesar Chavez

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. – Dorothy Height

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. – Mark Twain

A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It’s about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role. – Yehuda Berg

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community. – Haile Selassie

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

It is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people back to the warmth of community, to the worth of individual effort and responsibility, and of individuals working together as a community, to better their lives and their children’s future.

Some people think they are in community, but they are only in proximity. True community requires commitment and openness. It is a willingness to extend yourself to encounter and know the other.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

The minute we become an integrated whole, we look through the same eyes and we see a whole different world together.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.

There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much.

There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.

Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.

No man can become rich without himself enriching others.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.

Community service gives me a valuable opportunity to walk into a different community that is less familiar to me but just as colorful and most importantly, in need.

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

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

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. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they’re priceless.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

The purpose of life is not to be happy, but to matter to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.

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

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

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.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.

For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people’s love and concern for each other.

Communities and countries and ultimately the world are only as strong as the health of their women.

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children.

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one. – Mahatma Gandhi

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital. – Mark Hyman

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to. – Orson Scott Card

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race. – Cicero

Leadership And Community Quotes

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. – Mother Teresa

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. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. – George Bernard Shaw

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

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better. – J.K. Rowling

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. – Ronald Reagan

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. – Mahatma Gandhi

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. – John F. Kennedy

There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals. – Idowu Koyenikan

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together. – Paul Ryan

Leaders instill in their people a hope for success and a belief in themselves. Positive leaders empower people to accomplish their goals. – Brian Tracy

Where can we find the courage to act in spite of fear? Trying to eliminate that which we react to fearfully is a fool’s errand because it locates the source of our fear outside ourselves, rather than within our own hearts.

Practicing leadership – enabling others to achieve purpose in the face of uncertainty – requires engaging the heart, the head, and the hands: motivation, strategy, and action.

Leadership in organizing is rooted in three questions articulated by the first century Jerusalem sage, Rabbi Hillel: If I am not for myself, who am I? When I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?

Organizing is a practice of leadership whereby we define leadership as enabling others to achieve shared purpose under conditions of uncertainty.

Organized collective action challenging the status quo-a social movement- requires leadership that goes far beyond a stereotypical charismatic public persona with whom it is often identified. Unable to rely on established bureaucratic structures for coordination, evaluation, and action, such action depends on voluntary participation, shared commitments, and ongoing motivation. Movements must mobilize under risky conditions not only because well-resourced oppositions often resist their efforts, but also because the undertaking itself is fraught with uncertainty about how-and whether-it can happen in the first place.

Mobilizing others to achieve purpose under conditions of uncertainty- what leaders do-challenges the hands, the head, and the heart.

How do you invest in developing leadership but not in creating dependency of that leadership upon you?

It is time for all the heroes to go home… It is time to stop waiting for someone to save us. It is time to face the truth of our situation – that we’re all in this together, that we all have a voice – and figure out how to mobilize the hearts and minds of everyone in our communities.

The world is fundamentally transforming technologically, economically, socially and politically. The ongoing transformation needs to be shaped by appropriate policies and institutions. There are no simple, ready-made solutions. What we urgently need are pragmatic and future-oriented actions, even in the form of small steps, to provide positive narratives.

There is a way to create real collaboration. You have to let go. You have to loosen your grip on being right or on winning. You almost need to enter a conversation with no point of view, ready to receive others’ ideas and then layer your thoughts on top of them. By approaching a conversation this way, you’ll wind up with solutions you never thought of before.

After all, in a world where the social fabric seems to be rapidly fraying, the economy is uncertain, and the future of the planet is at risk, is there a better way to hit the reset button than to come back to the neighborhood level and begin to genuinely rely on one another again?

The competencies many once thought of as being soft – relationship building, mobilizing citizen-led initiatives, community building – are now the hard currency of successful leadership and the ultimate drivers of the systems change, innovation and transformation that will be essential for individual, community, environmental and economic well-being.

Systems leaders apply an unusual combination of skills and attributes to mobilize large-scale action for systems change. Like many leaders, they tend to be smart, ambitious visionaries with strong skills in management and execution.

The day will come when nations will be judged not by their military or economic strength, nor by the splendor of their capital cities and public buildings, but by the well-being of their people: by their levels of health, nutrition and education; by their opportunities to earn a fair reward for their labours; by their ability to participate in decisions that affect their lives; by the respect that is shown for their civil and political liberties; by the provision that is made for those who are vulnerable and disadvantaged; and by the protection that is afforded to the growing minds and bodies of their children.

A generation that acquires knowledge without ever understanding how that knowledge can benefit the community is a generation that is not learning what it means to be citizens in a democracy.

We must drop the idea that change comes slowly. Today changes come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits so we can comfortably accept the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight. We must discard the idea that past routines, past ways of doing things, are probably the best ways. On the contrary, we must assume there probably is a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before cannot be done at all.

In an age of fragmentation, you don’t need more scissors – what you need is glue. Local neighborhoods can be this glue.

Its time to awaken to the fact that we don’t have a health problem, nor a social care problem, nor a youth problem, nor even a safety problem, we have a village problem. In our heart, we know the solution to each does not lie in reforming silo by silo but in organizing our silos the way people organize their lives, so that the neighbourhood becomes our primary unit of analysis and change.

Quotes About Community Service

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together. – Malcolm Forbes

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. – Dorothy Day

Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place. – Natalie Portman

Some people think they are in community, but they are only in proximity. True community requires commitment and openness. It is a willingness to extend yourself to encounter and know the other. – David Spangler

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main – John Donne

One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals. When we pool our strength and share the work and responsibility, we can welcome many people, even those in deep distress, and perhaps help them find self-confidence and inner healing. – Jean Vanier

It is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people back to the warmth of community, to the worth of individual effort and responsibility, and of individuals working together as a community, to better their lives and their children’s future. – Robert F. Kennedy

Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God. – Stanley Hauerwas

If a man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life’s exciting variety, not something to fear. – Gene Roddenberry

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color. – Maya Angelou

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education. – Alice Waters

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together. – Jacqueline Woodson

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people? – Desmond Tutu

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today. – Jinato Hu

The minute we become an integrated whole, we look through the same eyes and we see a whole different world together. – Azizah Al-Hibri

One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone. – Shannon L. Alder

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. – Leo Buscaglia

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. – Oscar Wilde

It is nice to be important, but more important to be nice. – Walter Winchell

For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people’s love and concern for each other. – Millard Fuller

No man can become rich without himself enriching others. – Andrew Carnegie

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. – Audrey Hepburn

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. – Herman Melville

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit. – Nelson Henderson

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. – Betty Reese

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth. – Muhammad Ali

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. – Tom Brokaw

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

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. – Dr. Seuss

Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives. – Michelle Obama

The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you. – Michael J. Cohen

Every community is called to be an instrument for the liberation and promotion of the poor. – Jonathan Pryce

A sense of community strengthens people’s faith in humanity. – Jessica Marie Baumgartner

You may be a savior for your community- it’s only a matter of synchronicity. – Hrishikesh Agnihotri

People are never truly alone or separate from community, and cannot be. – Ichiro Kishimi

All community is in some way imagined. – Stan Grant

A community best serves itself when it truly serves the awakening of the unique story trying to come to life through each person born. – Michael Meade

Community is a context and can either facilitate or inhibit the movement of change for the individual. – Sharon Weil

It is in community where we find our very selves. – Chris Matakas

In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society. – Bill Courtney

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. -Mother Teresa

By prayer, community is created as well as expressed. – Henri Nouwen

Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging. – Deepak Chopra

A community that is engaged and working together can be a powerful force. – Idowu Koyenikan

Community is like a big family. – Zygmunt Bauman

Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story. – Bill Maher

Community is where humility and glory touch. – Henri Nouwen

Community living is about having the same rights and choices as everyone else. – Ari Neeman

If you support the community, they will support you. – Jerry Greenfield

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual. – Jeremy Bentham

When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village. – T.F. Hodge

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices. – Alfie Kohn

It only takes one person to mobilize a community and inspire change. Even if you don’t feel like you have it in you, it’s in you. You have to believe in yourself. People will see your vision and passion and follow you. – Teyonah Parris

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

We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community. – Paul Bloom

I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person’s life is the affect they have on others. – Steve Nash

A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It’s about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role. – Yehuda Berg

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. – Dorothy Height

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

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing. -Rollo May

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community. -Anthony J. D’Angelo

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. -Henrik Ibsen

The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food. -Dean Ornish

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it. -Marianne Williamson

The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community. -Jeff Bridges

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change. -Max Carver

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. -Thomas Aquinas

Quality of life actually begins at home – it’s in your street, around your community. -Charles Kennedy

Do not let where you come from define you, but never forget the values you learned from your close community. -Anthony Carmona

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. -Ruth Reichl

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities. -Stephen R. Covey

But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. -Bell Hooks

Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. -Wendell Berry

We don’t heal in isolation, but in community. -S. Kelley Harrell

Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don’t talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live. -Jean Vanier

To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination. -Bell Hooks

Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don’t need a lot of money to be happy-in fact, the opposite. -Jean Vanier