Pay Forward Quotes

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

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Jo Walton

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

Woody Hayes

#4. You can never pay back, so you should always try to pay forward.

Woody Hayes

#5. 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

#6. Level, is spelled the same forward and backwards. Those on the upper level can always hit the bottom, and those on the bottom can always rank to the top. Envision your footprints up there already trailing, and your feet will soon follow suit.

Anthony Liccione

#7. 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

#8. Every once in awhile try to do something nice for somebody you don't know, even if it's just leaving an opening in traffic for them to merge into, small things like that give people hope that we're not all assholes.

Joshua Neik

#9. If you stop for one second and do something, everyone is happy. You pay it forward and it comes back to you twelve-fold.

Mariska Hargitay

#10. Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don't owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was true for our parents. The same will be true for our children.

Dan Pearce

#11. Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt.

Bill Shuster

#12. So, you've failed many times at many things. That's okay! Learn, grow, and move forward. With the right attitude and mindset, you can learn a lot from failure. Pay attention and keep on striving! You've got this!

Stephanie Lahart

#13. In a world like this, you pay it forward, 'cause more than likely you didn't deserve it when you got it the first time.

Mindy McGinnis

#14. We're well aware of how intelligent our audience is. We're well aware that Fringe is a show that you really need to lean forward into and pay attention to and think about. It's not designed to be a show that you can watch while you're folding laundry.

Jeff Pinkner

#15. Being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are good parents not so they will be loving enough to stay with us but so they will be strong enough to leave us.

Anna Quindlen

#16. Life is like waiting in line at the grocery store. You wait, you slowly move forward, you pay the price, then you exit unsatisfied and broke.

Erin McCarthy

#17. My goal is to assist people in the process of rapidly achieving their goals so they are able to live the life of their dreams. My hope is that they will eventually pay-it-forward and help those that they care about the most do the same

Jairek Robbins

#18. I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.

Giuliana Rancic

#19. Pricing is actually a pretty simple and straight forward thing. Customers will not pay literally a penny more than the true value of the product.

Ron Johnson

#20. Early in our marriage, we knew that once the kids were gone, we would still be married and have to work on it. So, we decided to pay it forward. We worked in the first year like we wanted things to be in the fiftieth year. I'm so glad we did.

Fawn Weaver

#21. Nick Nelson was first brandished with the moniker "the last of the nice guys" after leaving a pickup basketball game in 6th grade to help an elderly lady he didn't know, carry her groceries 17 blocks to her house.

Matt Micros

#22. Be humble, be grateful, give back, share, pay it forward, chase your dreams, go for it, and take a moment to remember where it is ALL from.

Justin Bieber

#23. Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.

Naval Ravikant

#24. Sock Monsters Pay-It-Forward to offer hospitalized children a chance to smile, if only for a while!

Dalene Davies

#25. We need to reward the 'thankless job' of substitute teaching with better pay and chances for permanent positions. I look forward to the day when no student comes home saying, 'I didn't learn much today ... we had a sub.'

Adora Svitak

#26. So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.

Ian Anthony Dale

#27. The success that Pantera had, I could have never, ever forecasted or predicted, and I always felt a responsibility to try to pay even a bit of it forward.

Phil Anselmo

#28. Pay It Forward: A random act of kindness towards another person with no expectation of return on investment. (my own definition)

Michele Spry

#29. I was a jackass in many ways. I projected that cruelty towards others, that kid whose hand I was wringing. If I could have hurt a hundred weaklings - weaker than me, and I was already very weak - I would. I was dying to hurt somebody, to pay it forward.

Gary Shteyngart

#30. I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.

Doug Collins

#31. Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

Iris Murdoch

#32. Beauty is looking backward and urging forward, and trying desperately to pay attention to the now.

Lou Gaglia

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

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

David Chiles

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

Robert B. Parker

#40. 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

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

Anita R. Sneed-Carter

#42. '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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

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

Diane Samuels

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

Randy Pausch

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

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

Chris Matakas

#54. 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

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

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#56. 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

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#58. 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

#59. Spread good energy. Pay it forward!

Brittany Maynard