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It’s worth noting that you can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. You can spend your life on Wall Street and be a hero
Sep 10, 2025
He who Serves his fellows is, of all his fellows, greatest
Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.
Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.
There is no higher religion than human service.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.
The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.
I think I'm a real good person off the field. I've got good character traits, I go to Church often, and I do community service. I think I'm a really good role model.
To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.
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.
I don't think any change in the world has been more significant than the change in the status of women. . . . A woman's world was her home, her family, and perhaps a little community service. Today, a woman's world is as broad as the universe.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Through that organization [Community Service Organization], I met Cesar Chavez. We had this common interest about farm workers. We ultimately left CSO to start the National Farm Workers Organization, which became the United Farm Workers. I was very blessed to have learned some of the skills of basic grassroots organizing from Mr. Ross and then be able to put that into practice in both CSO and the United Farm Workers.
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
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.
I believe in God... just in case. It's like there's some list somewhere and you don't want to be on it. I don't want to say THERE'S NO GOD! and then die and say, Oh, Hi... Is there some kind of community service I can do?
When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who's in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you're investing your time in that.
I read that nine out of 10 women fantasize about having an unknown man leap through their bedroom window at night and make mad, passionate love to them. Who would think with those odds, I would now be facing 150 hours of community service.
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.
You only need a heart full of grace
I get to cry to Barbara Walters, when things don't go my way. I'll get community service no matter which laws I break.
As a conscientious objector I did my community service in 1971 in a psychiatric hospital and a friend there, who also was a guitar player, invited me one day to join him recording film music with a band named Kraftwerk which I didn't know at the time. I came along and jammed at this session together with Ralf Hütter and a drummer (I believe his name was Charly Weiß). Florian Schneider and Klaus Dinger were present as listeners and everybody liked the spontaneous music we did together.
There is no community service in Seinfeld. But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.
I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about - over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a lot of things linked with it. So my life's very full today. Not enough days in the week.
Have fun, because that's what life is all about.
People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered sex offender and I'd just been released from prison and was being forced to do community-service work. I was a murderer, an arsonist - all these horrific things had been projected on me because no one knew what to make of this white guy who showed up and made toast at 5 o'clock every morning.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Community service has taught me all kinds of skills and increased my confidence. You go out there and think on your feet, work with others and create something from nothing. That's what life's all about.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
I am grateful to be able to participate in the adult citation program where I will complete community service.
I have always admired men and women who used their talents to serve the community, and who were highly respected and admired for their efforts and sacrifices, even though they held no office whatsoever in government or society.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
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 verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are learning in the classroom. It enables them to apply academic disciplines to practical, everyday problems. In the process, it provides a compelling answer to the adolescent's perennial question, 'Why do I need to learn this stuff?
By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons should be complemented by work outside the classroom. Service-learning does just that, tying community service to academic learning.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.