Community

66 inspire records in this category

“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  

“Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.”

Adelaide Hoodless  

“Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much”

Helen Keller  

“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  

“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  

“The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food. ”

Dean Ornish  

“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  

“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  

“Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community, we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we want them to be. ”

Jean Vanier  

“Don't be a hog: the only time a hog helps the community is when he dies. ”

Evan Esar  

“Community is another such phenomenon. Like electricity, it is profoundly lawful. Yet there remains something about it that is inherently mysterious, miraculous, unfathomable. Thus there is no adequate one-sentence definition of genuine community. Community is something more than the sum of its parts, its individual members. What is this "something more?" Even to begin to answer that, we enter a realm that is not so much abstract as almost mystical. It is a realm where words are never fully suitable and language itself falls short. ”

M. Scott Peck  

“We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must "log on" somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. ”

Julia Cameron  

“Anyone who says that society can be run on the basis of everyone's trying to maximize his own greed is talking total nonsense. And to teach it in schools, and to go on television and call it the American way of life still doesn't make it true. Competition and envy cannot become the basis of any society or any community.”

Carroll Quigley  

“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  

“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  

“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  

“Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try. ”

Dee Hock  

“Community is a word that alters in different contexts in an almost chameleon-like fashion. ”

Sharon MacDonald  

“A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. ”

Henrik Ibsen  

“The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual; the impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. ”

William Jame  

“Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts. ”

Parker J. Palmer  

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

Idowu Koyenikan