Quotes for All
There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work. Dorothy L. Sayers
He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own. Confucius
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. Booker T. Washington
What we saw was that the Ferguson Police Department in conjunction with the municipality saw traffic stops, arrests, tickets as a revenue generator, as opposed to serving the community, and that it systematically was biased against African-Americans in that city who were stopped, harassed, mistreated, abused, called names, fined. Barack Obama
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. Albert Schweitzer
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Albert Einstein
Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one’s duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means serving the community instead of contenting oneself. We have a word for the basic disposition which underlies conduct of this kind in contrast to egoism and selfishness-idealism. By ‘idealism’ we mean only the … Read more