Giving Something Back Quotes

#1. I was gifted with a life that was full of adventure. I've always believed, if you're gifted, that it's incumbent not to think about giving something back.

Bob Weir

#2. Life is not about maximizing everything, it's about giving something back - like light, space, form, serenity, joy. You have to give something back.

Glenn Murcutt

#3. It's for giving something back to me, something I lost before I was able to really have it.

Veronica Roth

#4. My concerns have been about myself and not about giving something back and putting something in, even though that's been in the back of my head.

Donald Byrd

#5. The American Dream means giving it your all, trying your hardest, accomplishing something. And then I'd add to that, giving something back. No definition of a successful life can do anything but include serving others.

George H. W. Bush

#6. Rapping for me is more about being entertaining and giving something back to the fans. I want people to say, 'There goes Pooch holding his own with Consequence, Rick Ross, and Drake.'

Pooch Hall

#7. As men, we all have something to give. We all have the power to do our own part to stop the global pandemic of violence against women and girls. It is holding us all back.

Richard Branson

#8. You were created to add to life on earth, not just take from it. God wants you to give something back.

Rick Warren

#9. There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly.

Dean Ornish

#10. What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.

Andrew Tobias

#11. True kindness is not necessarily giving something to someone who is down, but showing them that they still have something to give to get back up.

Charles F. Glassman

#12. I wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and whatever failure or accident of nature caused you to be killed could be explained by something other than the fact that I'd missed your giving up.

Kevin Powers

#13. You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.

Zachary Knighton

#14. If you don't give something back when you get, you don't keep.

Oprah Winfrey

#15. I'm more open to give things a go, but what I'm not good at yet is holding back. If something is daft or rubbish, I just go, I can't be doing it.

Karl Pilkington

#16. Giving back is always something I'm doing - I'm honored for this, to always give back to the community.

Dellin Betances

#17. Whenever I perform I try to connect with the crowd and give off energy so when they walk away from the show its remarkable and its something they talk about it, like 'damn I cant wait to come back to my show.'

G-Eazy

#18. Everybody has the right to marry the person they love and be represented as a couple and family ... It's something that people will look back on in years to come and say, 'I can't believe it took so long for us to recognize this.' It'll be like segregation and giving women the right to vote.

Julianne Moore

#19. I don't really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back.

Meryl Streep

#20. People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.

Dorothy Allison

#21. We have an obligation to give something back to the community that gives so much to us.

Ray Kroc

#22. Giving back is something that comes from the heart to me. It's not that I do it because it's the right thing: I do it because I want do it.

Henry Kravis

#23. Life is something you can't borrow and give back;
Here today and gone tomorrow ... just like that.

E-40

#24. My hometown is extremely supportive of me and I feel blessed to be able to create something as a way of giving back; to say thank you.

Carrie Underwood

#25. When you give something, just for the joy of creating, it always comes back on a much larger scale.

Ji Lee

#26. My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.

Lee Iacocca

#27. When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give your back your courage.

Grace Ogot

#28. I don't believe that you can give the same performance every take. It's physically impossible, so why bother? If you don't do what is happening at that moment, then it's not real. Then you're holding something back.

Bill Murray

#29. We put out real hip-hop at a time when it was turning into pop or R&B ... We brought the focus back to the music in its rawest form, without studio polish or radio hooks ... People want something that gives them an adrenaline rush. We're here to supply that fix.

RZA

#30. I was brought up Catholic, and even as a little girl I was affected by the idea of giving back - doing something for the needy, something of significance.

Joan Ganz Cooney

#31. Being successful entails being able to not only get along with people, but also to give something back

Mark Cuban

#32. Fashion and wearing clothes is a daily routine for everybody. What better way to spread the word of giving back and philanthropic ways of life than to wear something that gives back to charity?

Patrick Schwarzenegger

#33. I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

Kris Allen

#34. She'd say thank you for giving her boy back something that left him when she did.

Jamie McGuire

#35. When I stepped away from the white pine, I had the definite feeling that we had exchanged some form of life energy ... Clearly white pines and I are on the same wavelength. What I give back to the trees I cannot imagine. I hope they receive something, because trees are among my closest friends.

Anne LaBastille

#36. I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.

Alberto Manguel

#37. I was looking for Quincy Jones, that's who I was obsessed with. Watching Mike [Jackson], I always knew that I had to be a showman on stage, because when people come to you live you always want them to come back. You gotta give them something to remember.

Wyclef Jean

#38. Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a hospital wing, a donation to their church. This is a form of socialism that must go.

Lindsey Graham

#39. I love people. I wanted to be with the people. I wanted to give something back what I get from football, because God gave everything to me.

Pele

#40. Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.

Paul Newman

#41. This has nothing to do with taking on roles," I argue back. "It's about showing your appreciation for someone and doing something for them they're always doing for you. Giving some of that good back.

J. Daniels

#42. The game asks that you work to improve, that you put something into it, and that you also give something back to it. The game is universal. It is a language that unites all of us.

Jim Calhoun

#43. Every drop of rain hit the ground with such force it bounced back up again, giving the earth the appearance of something boiling.

Ann Patchett

#44. Besides, there wasn't a breed of succubi out there that didn't steal something. Whether it was your seed, your soul, your life-force, or your heart, they sucked something out of you and rarely gave back.
Sin definitely did not strike him as the giving kind.

Larissa Ione

#45. So let me tell you, as you prepare to go off into the world, remember six rules: Trust yourself, Break some rules, Don't be afraid to fail, Ignore the naysayers, Work like hell, and Give something back.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#46. I'm both challenged and excited. My excitement is: I get a chance to give something back. My challenge is: The shortest seminar I usually do is 50 hours.

Tony Robbins

#47. In business you must give something back.

Donald Trump

#48. My father ... very generous, very philanthropic, very charitable man. My siblings and I and my mother continue with always appreciating and always giving back. It's something I hope that I've become a role model for my children.

Steve Tisch

#49. Whatever community organization, whether it's a women's organization, or fighting for racial justice ... you will get satisfaction out of doing something to give back to the community that you never get in any other way.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#50. If you get something for nothing, part of you may be pleased, but part of you moves your hand to give something back.

Jonathan Haidt

#51. I enjoy what people at the concert give me and I can't do it without them, so it's really an exchange of energy that snowballs back and forth and becomes something that's very satisfying and very magical.

Lenny Kravitz

#52. We don't do movies for the industry. We do movies for the fans, for the people. If the industry give you a trophy or not, or pat you on the back or not, it's nice, but it's not something you should dwell on.

Ice Cube

#53. I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation.

Luciano Pavarotti

#54. One of the things I liked about bringing this show back was that it gives people something to look forward to. In doing the show, I was very aware that some people will watch it all in one night, but there is enough that it will be fun to re-watch. Hopefully, people will be laughing a lot.

Mitchell Hurwitz

#55. I do think that at a certain point, the reboot sequel mode has to give way to original ideas and back to a place where, you know, films are, you know, a medium and the cinema is a place you go to see something that is, you know, wholly new.

J.J. Abrams

#56. My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.

Andrew Forge

#57. And, finally, I know, too. That throwing away this mess doesn't mean I'm giving something up. Or losing something I can't get back. It's just that there are too many pieces and too much dust. I'm just ready for something whole.
- Pete Cassidy

Cynthia Rylant

#58. I'm talking about doing something good for mankind. Imagine how awesome everyone would feel if they knew all that holy stuff was real." -Gregori
"Stuff? Four years of giving sermons, and that what I get back? Holy stuff?

Kerrelyn Sparks

#59. I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of.

Kanye West

#60. How are you? How was your flight? He hit the Send button without recognizing that in writing to her he was taking a step back from his life as he knew it and into the unknown future, for one cannot embark upon the new without giving up something in return.

Jill Bialosky

#61. I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back.

Marian Wright Edelman

#62. I do everything I can on a daily basis just so I can have something to give back to the world.

Aeriel Miranda

#63. We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole world, and which, if he is an artist, he is compelled to give back to the world.

Henry Miller

#64. I understand the importance of giving back, and that's something I definitely want to do.

Jacoby Ellsbury

#65. If you give them enough of yourself, they might realize that you're bleeding out from the pieces of you you keep giving them, and maybe give you something back. But then they don't. So you sit there. Less than you were.

Danielle Jordan

#66. I made money. I wanted to give it back to Africa but I wanted to give it back in a meaningful way. So I really want to do something which deals with the root of the problem of hunger, of disease, of ills we have in our society.

Mo Ibrahim

#67. I can't cuss and tell jokes the rest of my life. I gotta say something meaningful. I gotta give something back to a Creator who has given so much to me.

Steve Harvey

#68. Be very careful. Giving because we think we will get something back will not work. You must be 100 percent willing to give and never experience any return, or it will not work.

John Templeton

#69. As a person, you want to feel like you're giving back. That's something I've always enjoyed doing.

Laura Vandervoort

#70. I treat every race the same. We all wanted to swim fast today and give something back to the crowd.

Michael Phelps

#71. Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.

Joseph Campbell

#72. Quitting-it was a dirty word in a place where pilgrims had endured harsh winters and where pioneers had struggled through death and disease to create new lives. Giving up or stepping back or setting aside something you thought you wanted- it was almost a shameful act.

Deb Caletti

#73. The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to science

Susan Wojcicki

#74. If you are successful because of Hip Hop, which I am, then you have to recognize that Hip Hop is nothing if not a product of the street, therefore you have to give something back.

Doc Brown

#75. If it is hard to find time to do the complete self-healing, you may practice Reiki by giving Reiki to only the front chakras of the body one day, and the back chakras the next day. This reduces the practice time to about 15-20 minutes, something very achievable in the busiest of schedules.

Beena Rani Goel

#76. When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.

Matthew Bourne

#77. If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he is very good, eventually he will get back - like Cezanne - to the essential forms of what he sees.

Robert Motherwell