Community Service Quotes

I spent the last Friday of summer vacation spreading hot, sticky tar across the roof of George Washington High. My companions were Dopey, Toothless, and Joe, the brain surgeons in charge of building maintenance. At least they were getting paid. I was working forty feet above the ground, breathing in sulfur fumes from Satan's vomitorium, for

Laurie Halse Anderson

If we act in clean way, we shall clear the city of any dirt.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Giving back is so important. Give back to your communities in whatever way you can. With donations, items or with your time. The Universe blesses a generous heart.

The acts of kindness I do for my community comes from the heart. If your mind wonders why I serve the community with such a kind heart, there goes a great connection between heart and mind. Once your mind figures out why my heart drives me to service my community with unselfish intentions, this will lead to you extending a helping hand and rendering service to your community; there goes a great connection between heart, mind and body. We will both rejoice in the great feeling of doing community service and our souls will experience fulfillment together; there goes a great connection between heart, mind, body and soul. Our community service is complete.

Reekie D. Mays of SDM Speaks

The Latino community anchored me, but I didn't want it to isolate me from the full extent of what Princeton had to offer, including engagement with the larger community. Page 148

Sonia Sotomayor

For every tree, we plant, we saves a life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Communities are not built of friends, or of groups of people with similarstyles and tastes, or even of people who like and understand each other.They are built of people who feel they are part of something that isbigger than themselves: a shared goal or enterprise, like righting a wrong,or building a road, or raising children, or living honorably, or worshippinga god. To build community requires only the ability to see value in others:to look at them and see a potential partner in one's enterprise.

Suzanne Goldsmith

The heart of service is grace of belonging.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of the elderly, lending a new terror to old age and, given Ankh-Morpork's crime rate, leading to at least one old lady having her front room wallpapered so many times in six months that now she could only get in sideways.

Terry Pratchett

The city shall be cleared of any dirt, if every community acts collectively.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If every community acts collectively, the city shall be clean.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Do the good work, with the resources you have.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Don’t despise your contributions to Humanity. Every little kind deed counts.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Community service has become a patch for morality. You can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck.

Timothy J. Keller

May we find more grace to do good deeds.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Shannon L. Alder

There is an overflowing grace, for every great work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Lailah Gifty Akita

Laziness has made our cities unclean. If we begin to work and act appropriately, we will clean our cities of any dirt.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Work with enthusiasm.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If we understand we need each other, we will keep together.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Environmental cleanliness begins with each individual desire to be clean.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Environmental cleanliness begins with individual desire to be clean.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Desire to dwell in clean environment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A blessed deed is saying hello with a smile to someone you meet on the street, in the shop, in the bus, in the office, in the church, in the holy places, in the mosque, at the park, at the school, at the university…..’ This is the greatest action of belonging to one another.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We have grace of strength to work, to clear our cities of any dirt.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We volunteer to work for the love and joy of service.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The city is dirty due to the laziness of the citizens in the country.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Our services serve a specific need.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The spirit of service is the heart of humanity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others.

The greatest part of our existence enfold in service of humanity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You must not wait to be elected into office, before you begin to serve. Begin to serve every where you are; in the home, community, school, university, work, hospital, church, market, society, nation and among many other places.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We must live as people with great hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a service. Serve in the grace of strength within thy soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The beauty of life is sharing life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If it has to be done, take the responsibility to do it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.

Shannon L. Alder