Ron Conway Quotes

I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That's the important thing.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

Everybody is supposed to be a part of their own community.

Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

Programs have to be developed by the people in the community.

We are not apathetic in this country.

As a human being, when I see things going on in my community, I feel compelled to do something, to say something.

Beyond being a footballer, I am a citizen.

I feel like I'm a part of the Boston community.

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

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community and I use the word very loosely. It's a big community. If I get recognized in the middle of the Sinai Desert I have a big community.

I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community.

I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.

I think our duty as American citizens is to be involved and engaged in anything that affects us. As an artist, I have to use my platform, and as a dad, a brother, and a black man, I have to be as socially woke and present as possible.

We need a new kind of citizenship, so that we can see citizens as themselves earning the rank of patriot because of their involvement in their community affairs....We as a society need to be encouraging people to focus not just on individual wants but on serving the larger community.

Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement

If this day means anything, it means that you are now in the contingent of the responsible. You must be kind, yes, but you must also look beyond your own house. We're depending on you for your efforts and your vision. We are depending on your eye and your imagination to identify what wrongs exist and persist, and on your hands, your backs, your efforts, to right them.

Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service.

Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she'd added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community. No rule says that only the local banker or car dealer can organize the program to raise supplemental funds for the public library or send the high school band on a well-earned special trip. Participating in community affairs, with time more than dollars, is good business from day one. It gets your name around, adds to your distinctiveness, and, best of all, makes you an attractive employer (which is the key to sustained success).

A community is only a community when the majority of its members are making the transition from 'the community for myself' to 'myself for the community'.

We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to foster a greater sense of collective responsibility.

Each of us, as citizens, has a role to play in creating a better world for our children

Because I believe in my ... proud citizen of this country should be doing. And that is to try and put in as much as he takes out. I guess it's to the hard knocks of life that I attribute this conclusion.