Quotes about Community
To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will.
- Pema Chodron
All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.
- Harry S. Truman
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
- Marcus Aurelius
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
- Thomas Paine
If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.
- Oprah Winfrey
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
- Aristotle
Make sure your intentions are not only for yourself, but also for the common good.
- Deepak Chopra
Let every action aim solely at the common good.
- Marcus Aurelius
On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space.
- Alain de Botton