Quotes on Community Service

By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons should be complemented by work outside the classroom. Service-learning does just that, tying community service to academic learning.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.

Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are learning in the classroom. It enables them to apply academic disciplines to practical, everyday problems. In the process, it provides a compelling answer to the adolescent's perennial question, 'Why do I need to learn this stuff?

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

You only need a heart full of grace

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.

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.