Community Service Quotes and Sayings

If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
– Bob Hope

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
– John Bunyan

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.
– Theodore Roosevelt

Open your heart – open it wide; someone is standing outside.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
– Mother Teresa

No one has ever become poor by giving.
– Anne Frank

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 your verb agree to serve…. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
– George Eliot

Generosity consists not the sum given,
But the manner in which it is bestowed.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
– Margaret Mead

No one is useless in this world who lighten the burdens of others.

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

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.

Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.

I’d rather do community service than sit and write a load of Christmas cards.
– Paul O’Grady