Best Pay It Forward Quotes

#1. It's one thing to have a goal, but it's quite another thing to actually accept the challenge, develop a strategy to press for the goal, make the sacrifices, pay the price to move forward, and blessing of blessing, to realize some part of it.

Elizabeth George

#2. Street cred is hard won and Destiny requires you to pay it forward. God helps you through hard times so you can help someone else.

T.D. Jakes

#3. Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that's all I ask.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. Spread good energy. Pay it forward!

Brittany Maynard

#5. From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I looked forward to summer as the time when I could work at the library four or five days a week. I was never a camp counselor, a lifeguard, a scooper of ice cream.

Julia Glass

#6. Avoidance is paying forward that which I would be much wiser to pay off.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#7. The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward.

Norman Cousins

#8. If you can't pay it back, pay it forward.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#9. A purposeful act or extension of kindness to another is never wasted, for it always resides in the hearts of all involved in a chain of love.

Molly Friedenfeld

#10. You can never really pay back. You can only pay forward.

Woody Hayes

#11. The greatest effects we have on the world are the ones we can never see.

Chris Matakas

#12. Still,' whispered Jack, 'you have to keep at it. Overcome the miseries of vomiting and the whirling pit. Pay your dues and work towards the real rewards of big-time adult drinking. Something to look forward to.

Robert Rankin

#13. Accelerated depreciation helps companies bring forward capital-intensive investments by reducing payback time. It's not a hand out. Companies still have to pay the tax, but they simply get to defer it.

Anthony Pratt

#14. Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#15. Sometimes you can't pay it back, so you just have to pay it forward.

Randy Pausch

#16. You mustn't throw them away. Let me have them.

Diane Samuels

#17. Call it eternal optimism or romantic rebellion, but one of these days karma would stop flipping her the bird and pay it forward.

Marina Adair

#18. Those who come forward will not be offered an automatic pass to citizenship and should be expected to pay a substantial fine or penalty to participate in the temporary program.

Elaine Chao

#19. I often talk about the PayPal mafia out of San Francisco, people that were in PayPal and got out of PayPal and continue to reinvest in other start-ups and create a huge pay-it-forward type of network there.

Ryan Holmes

#20. While much remains to be done to achieve full equality of economic opportunity-for the average woman worker earns only 60 percent of the average wage for men-this legislation is a significant step forward.

John F. Kennedy

#21. During our meetings in Peshawar, Abdul Haq...asked me why the United States does not pay attention to terrorism. He compared America to a huge elephant: "One hundred people push on it and it doesn't blink, but when it decides to move, it lumbers forward and crushes everything.

Peter Tomsen

#22. 'Pay it forward' has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me huge satisfaction to be able to help writers in a measurable way.

Victoria Strauss

#23. Keep pressing forward and focused on your goals. Hard work does have a "pay day"!!-

Anita R. Sneed-Carter

#24. When we're struck with cruelty, we can either inflict the same on others like it's a rite of passage, or decide that here is where it stops.

Joyce Rachelle

#25. Loss is the price we pay for progress," she said. "Only as we leave things behind do we move forward.

Robert B. Parker

#26. Pay it forward with free compliments. They are returned in due time.

David Chiles

#27. What you can't pay back you pay forward.

Jo Walton

#28. You don't pay back, you pay forward.

Robert A. Heinlein

#29. Everybody getting a significant exit creates a legacy and creates something that you can pay forward and bootstrap an industry in a substantial way.

Ryan Holmes

#30. I bought an insurance policy covering the inheritance tax my kids will have to pay when we die, which I thought was a good bit of forward thinking. And I always know I'm going to have enough for tax because I make sure I keep it back in my business account.

Mark Billingham

#31. The world is a beautiful place, travel has been my greatest teacher, my close friends and folks are the greatest givers. I even have a ring of support around my bed as I type ... Goodbye world. Spread good energy. Pay it forward!

Brittany Maynard

#32. A Spiritual Samaritan lives knowing that if we were to leave this world tomorrow, we were the best humans we could be and we touched the lives of as many souls as possible. We are not asked to be perfect. We are asked to make a difference.

Molly Friedenfeld