Quotes about Community
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
— Henry David Thoreau
What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.
— Henry David Thoreau
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.
— Henry Ford
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
— Henry Ford
The charitable system that does not aim to make itself unnecessary is not performing service.
— Henry Ford
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.
— Henry Ward Beecher
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
— Henry Ward Beecher
When a man unites with the church, he should not come saying, "I am so holy that I think I must go in among the saints," but, "O brethren, I find I am so weak and wicked that I cannot stand alone; so, if you can help me, open the door and let me enter."
— Henry Ward Beecher
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
— Henry Ward Beecher
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them — the whole leaf and root tribe.
— Henry Ward Beecher