Octavia E. Butler Quotes

We are constantly learning and growing and changing. We are really an experiment. We are endeavoring to discover if a community of faith can exist purely for the good of others.

My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Equip yourself for life, not solely for your own benefit, but for the benefit of the whole community

The ideal of service and the urge to practice it form the very heart of education.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

I knew that life itself was this journey, and I've always seen it as a kind of school in that we're meant to have fun, and we're meant to grow, and we're meant to evolve and learn to be better humans and how to love each other better and how to love ourselves and become a part of a community of love on this planet.

I just want to be a better person to the community.

Reading has helped motivate me to become a spokesperson for programs like the WrestleMania Reading Challenge. It has motivated me to become more involved in my community and to keep learning new things.

To me I think leadership is activism. It's giving back to your community, it's investing in oneself, and you know women and children.

Community service has been a great thing for me.

Instead of only doing songs and item dance,' we need to have a hard look at ourselves not only as actors, but people in this society.

I don't have any high aims or goals, but I hope to continue my journey of multi-tasking as I have been doing so far as an actor, dancer, and also serving people of the nation.

We want to be more than just being the Bella Twins and the stars of these reality TV shows. I want to have a bigger purpose in life. So that's why, with Birdiebee, we really want to give back.

If I can't give back to the society, then this isn't a good life I am leading.

All of us start from zero. We take the right decision and become a hero.

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.

It's not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. you'll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighborhood, your town, your state, your country, and your fellow human beings than you'll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house, or your credit rating.

You have a destiny to fulfill, something greater than you've ever even imagined. But if you're going to become all you were created to be, you've got to take off the “average” label.

I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience.

My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work?

If I am awarded a pardon for my philanthropic work, great; if not, I will continue to be involved in the community and to work just as hard, if not harder, to prevent kids from going down the same road and making the same mistakes.

We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.

There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.