Community service is unpaid work performed by a person or group of people for the benefit and betterment of their community without any form of compensation. Profoundly inspirational community service quotes will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.
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Famous Community Service Quotes
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth. Muhammad Ali
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. Steve Jobs
Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they’re priceless. Sherry Anderson
What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.Aristotle
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. H. Jackson Brown Jr
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. Horace Mann
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Mahatma Gandhi
Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds. Bill Clinton
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. Oscar Wilde
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
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. Audrey Hepburn
If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever. Kofi Annan
Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain loving one another. Erma Bombeck
Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place. Natalie Portman
You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartache for other folks, you are a pretty rich man. Seth Parker
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. Audrey Hepburn
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others? Martin Luther King, Jr
Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they have the heart. Elizabeth Andrew
Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place. Natalie Portman
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. Oscar Wilde
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
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. Herman Melville
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. William Shakespeare
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. Arthur Ashe
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. Helen Keller
Every person can make a difference, and every person should try. John F. Kennedy
Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart. Elizabeth Andrew
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others? Martin Luther King, Jr.
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another.
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. John E. Southard
Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have. Jim Rohn
It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. Tom Brokaw
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. Kahlil Gibran
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. William James
You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man. Seth Parker
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill
I urge young people to consider public service, whether they do it now by volunteering in their community or prepare for public service as an adult. John Walters
If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart. Rumi
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.Muhammad Ali
Volunteers are love in motion!
The quality of your life will be determined by the quality of your contribution. When you work to improve the lives of others, your life improves automatically. Kurek Ashley
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering: Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good. Ivan Scheier
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. Dr. Seuss
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank
I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. Edward Everett
Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful.
Help one another. There’s no time like the present, and no present like the time. James Durst
Help one another. There’s no time like the present, and no present like the time.James Durst
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Gandhi
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. Dr. Seuss
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. Mother Teresa
Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they’re priceless.Sherry Anderson
While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate. Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. Malayan Proverb
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
At the end of the day it’s not about what you have or even what you’ve accomplished it’s about who you’ve lifted up, who you’ve made better. It’s about what you’ve given back. Denzel Washington
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity Douglas Adams
Even if you just change one life, you’ve changed the world forever. Mike Satterfield
Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. Kahlil Gibran
Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. Edward Everett Hale
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.
Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year, but when you volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. James Matthew Barrie
Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place Rosalynn Carter
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pike
We have to do what we can to help wherever and whenever it is possible for us to help. Jackie Chan
Even if it’s a little thing, do something for those who have need of a man’s help something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For, remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here, too. Albert Schweitzer
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back. Maya Angelou
The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free. Robert Brault
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead
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
No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man. Bryant McGill
The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit. Nelson Henderson
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.
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. Henry David Thoreau
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Mahatma Gandhi
