Quotes About Paying It Forward

#1. I was a young girl the first time I learned about the concept of paying it forward.

Lynn Schusterman

#2. But Paying It Forward is about spontaneously offering favors, not needing to say yes when someone asks too much of you. And also, it's about kindness rather than niceness. There's a difference. Kindness is spontaneous and real. Niceness just mostly wants to be liked.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#3. Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.

Mariska Hargitay

#4. It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose.

Haruki Murakami

#5. Giving back feeds the heart; paying forward feeds the soul.

Lora Lindy

#6. If you're planning on dropping out of high school, prepare yourself for the future by repeating aloud each day: I'm looking forward to low-paying jobs for the rest of my life.

Sean Covey

#7. Your statistical track record for decision-making is somewhat concerning.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#8. There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can't we study peace?

Audrey Hepburn

#9. I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.

Tom Shadyac

#10. You know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation.

Annie Proulx

#11. Making new friends is tough. You don't really know who to trust when you're away from people that you love a lot.

Selena Gomez

#12. That's often the case, of course - that creation and madness begin to dance with each other.

Wally Lamb

#13. My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.

Sergei Prokofiev

#14. A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.

Aimee Mullins

#15. If liberals were prevented from ever again calling Republicans dumb, they would be robbed of half their arguments. To be sure, they would still have racist, fascist, homophobe, ugly, and a few other highly nuanced arguments in the quiver. But the loss of dumb would nearly cripple them.

Ann Coulter

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#17. I feel like creating things without getting too hung up on little details, and paying more attention to the importance to the concept itself, is the way to move forward.

Takashi Tokita

#18. Appear as you may wish to be

Niccolo Machiavelli

#19. Time is simply the measurement of human progression against that of existence.

Gerald M. Givens

#20. Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

Alvin Toffler

#21. To live among friends is the primary essential of happiness.

Lord Kelvin

#22. Her short path through life had been written and it was not her right to know the meaning, only the outcome.

Stuart Land

#23. They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.

Alice Munro