Community service is an excellent way to help others and improve ourselves.
It’s all about building a sense of unity and support among people who share a common space or trait.
Regardless of our differences what’s important is the common desire for a peaceful and caring environment.
Being a good community member doesn’t require big things; simple small acts of kindness and willingness to help are enough.
In return being part of a community offers a sense of belonging and the assurance that we’re not alone in this world.
Here is a great collection of quotes about community service for you.
Community Service Quotes
Being of service to others is what brings true happiness. ~ Marie Osmond.
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others. ~ Audrey Hepburn.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth. ~ Muhammad Ali.
A life of significance is about serving those who need your gifts, your leadership, your purpose. ~ Kevin Hall.
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. ~ Howard Zinn.
All other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy. ~ Mahatma Gandhi.
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being. ~ Lee Iacocca.
If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter. ~ Ezra Taft Benson.
The end of all knowledge should be service to others. ~ Cesar Chavez.
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. ~ Booker T. Washington.
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Motivational Community Service Quotes
You have two hands: One to help yourself, the second to help others. ~ Audrey Hepburn.
Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature. ~ Steve Maraboli.
To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money. ~ Douglas Adams.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. ~ Jim Rohn.
The minute we become an integrated whole, we look through the same eyes and we see a whole different world together. ~ Azizah Al-Hibri.
The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital. ~ Mark Hyman.
He profits most who serves best. ~ Arthur F. Sheldon.
Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together. ~ Paul Ryan.
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Quotes on Community Service
Without 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
Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others. ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Everybody can be great because everybody can serve. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The more we give away, the more is given to us. ~ Wayne W Dyer.
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.
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. ~ Leo Tolstoy.
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. ~ Mother Teresa.
There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals. ~ Idowu Koyenikan.
Community Service Sayings
The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members. ~ Coretta Scott King.
One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone. ~ Shannon L. Alder.
Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together. ~ Jacqueline Woodson..
No man can become rich without himself enriching others. ~ Andrew Carnegie.
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 freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life. ~ Wendell Berry.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
Reflective Community Service Quotes
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. ~ Herman Melville.
It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. ~ Tom Brokaw
Leadership is service, not position. ~ Tim Fargo
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.
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.
Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place. ~ Natalie Portman.
Man is still as he was, is still brutal, violent, aggressive, acquisitive, competitive and has built a society along these lines. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. ~ Robert Kennedy.
Power of Community Service Quotes
Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals. ~ Kallam Anji Reddy.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth. ~ Muhammad Ali.
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. ~ Caroline Landry..
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 nothing small in the service of God. ~ St. Francis De Sales
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..
There is incredible value in being of service to others. ~ Elizabeth Berg
Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together. ~ PAUL RYAN
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.
Heartwarming Community Service Quotes
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ~ Mahatma Gandhi.
Love in action is service to the world. ~ Lynne Namka.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. ~ John Donne.
Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to. ~ Orson Scott.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ~ Mahatma Gandhi.
Service doesn’t have to be big and grandiose to be meaningful and make a difference. ~ Cheryl Esplin
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. ~ Og Mandino.
Some of our finest work comes through service to others. ~ Gordon Hinckley.
Thought-Provoking Community Service Quotes
Help the life of one person and you can help the community. ~ Steven Sawalich
As we lose ourselves in the service of others we discover our own lives and our own happiness. ~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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. ~ Jean Vanier.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Give your hands to serve, and your hearts to love. ~ Mother Teresa.
There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you don’t do them. ~ Charles Gill
You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for. ~ Napoleon Hill
When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities. ~ Dalai Lama.
There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about. ~ Margaret J. Wheatley.
Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community. ~ Jean Vanier.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. ~ Desmond Tutu.
Inspirational Community Service Quotes
We don’t heal in isolation, but in community. ~ S. Kelley Harrell.
Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service. ~ Earl Nightingale.
Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves. ~ Nina Hagen
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. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. ~ Albert Schweitzer
We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race. ~ CICERO
Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much. ~ Helen Keller.
I hope this collection of community service quotes will help you in contributing your help to others and improve the society as a whole.
