Quotes about Community

When it comes to money, who and what you surround yourself with has a huge effect on how you perceive it and feel about it.

The most important part of your environment to be conscious of is the people you surround yourself with.

If you're around people who are making money in great and joyful ways, you'll not only see what's possible for you, but you'll be motivated to push yourself.

Your friend mourns your losses with you, because they experience them too. The truth is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you're never going through anything alone.

Living among clowns and misanthropists, she probably cannot appreciate a better class of people when she meets them.

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

But at the bottom of all the gloom, there is a sense that we are responsible for each other -- if not for each other's happiness. There is empathy, admiration, respect for the other's intelligence and honesty.

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.