Ben Rhodes Quotes

I am the CEO and co-founder of Purpose - a social movement incubator and agency. We work on ways to help millions of people combine their power as citizens, consumers and cultural agents.

Citizen activists look in the mirror, see what they're really good at and then apply their talents to solving social problems. It's skills-based volunteering.

I want to help find opportunities for people to become active participants in their communities.

Social actions means that you find an issue in your community, and you create an initiative to solve that issue or to help people.

Look at what is broken in society, figure out how to make it better, and then, around that, formulate a business.

Be an active participant in your community and country. Every small gesture makes up the big gestures. Resist, rinse, repeat.

That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.

In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

All I know is, I think I would like to continue to do public service.

I would like to somehow make the community I live in a better place to live.

Today, 30-year-olds are becoming social entrepreneurs.

The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world.

I had the opportunity at Duke to start doing things in the community, and it's something I continue to do even 20 years later.

There's a lot of good that's done for society in building businesses, but it's also great to be involved in those things where you can be connected to the community, to the world, and think about how you can use what you're creating, both in terms of your personal skills as well as your products or services to do good things for others.

My husband, Andrew Shue, is the co-founder of Do Something, and we both speak and present at awards ceremonies. It's absolutely amazing and humbling to see all the work so many young people are contributing to better their communities on both a local and global front.

I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.

My passion for service came from my parents, and my community involvement began at a very young age, when I volunteered with the local Chamber of Commerce in Lowell, MA to help revitalize our city.

As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.

I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

My greatest work comes in the community.

I have always been an active part of my community.

The world needs more social innovations.

What inspires me most are people who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and around the world.