Responsibility To Give Back Quotes

#1. I just feel that I'm compelled; that I have a responsibility to give back to those less fortunate.

Stewart Rahr

#2. I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need.

Bill Gates

#3. His father had always stressed that the comforts they enjoyed came with a responsibility to give back. In the words of the Bible, "To whom much is given, much is required.

George W. Bush

#4. I launched The Emeril Lagasse Foundation to provide culinary training, and developmental and educational programs to children in the cities where my restaurants operate. I think everyone has a responsibility to give back to the community if they can, and to help future generations learn new skills.

Emeril Lagasse

#5. Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Bill Gates

#6. I believe that we all have a responsibility to give back. No one becomes successful without lots of hard work, support from others, and a little luck. Giving back creates a virtuous cycle that makes everyone more successful.

Ron Conway

#7. Business has a responsibility to give back to the community.

Ben Cohen

#8. always stressed that the comforts they enjoyed came with a responsibility to give back.

George W. Bush

#9. By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

Harry A. Blackmun

#10. Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.

Paul Auster

#11. Death will come if you wait long enough...Hopefully, it'll be a long wait!

David A. Frazier

#12. I have always looked for ways to give back because I think it's a responsibility we all share.

Avril Lavigne

#13. My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.

Colin Powell

#14. If you are prepared to run for public office, you also have to be willing to accept a debate about you.

Wolfgang Schauble

#15. Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis.

Janis Karpinski

#16. Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Tony Robbins

#17. I came to the United States in the early '80s and was welcomed with open arms and given the opportunity to pursue my dreams. God has been very kind to us. My family and I are fortunate enough to be successful and we feel a tremendous responsibility and obligation to give back to our great country.

Naveen Jain

#18. This I believe: I believe there is no God.

Penn Jillette

#19. What surer sign is there that the creative aquifers are dry than a writer creating a writer-character?

David Mitchell

#20. I think it's a responsibility for everyone to give back.

Stacy Keibler

#21. I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling ... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Kevin Spacey

#22. Why is it so important for you to give back? I honestly feel like it's our responsibility as citizens of the world to ground ourselves in selflessness and all do our part.

Solange Knowles

#23. Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Billie Jean King

#24. We've gotten so much as a result of the changes. Part of our responsibility is to give something back to the game and the girls who are just starting to play.

Carla Overbeck

#25. It takes us about four or five days to get an album out.

Buddy Rich

#26. Some things will go wrong for each of us, the most important thing is your attitude in that circumstance

Sunday Adelaja

#27. It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.

Homer

#28. [When asked if she believed in "women's lib":] Not really. Not when I see what most of them look like.

Greta Garbo

#29. And that I did not give to anyone the responsibility for my life. It is mine. I made it. And can do what I want to with it. Give it back, someday, without bitterness, to the wild and weedy dunes.

Mary Oliver

#30. The function of a great library is to store obscure books.

Nicholson Baker

#31. I think I am difficult to satisfy, because when I win something, I'm already thinking about the next step, and that is maybe a problem for me. I'm not enjoying the moment. I'm already on the mission to win the next trophy.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#32. We can neither heal nor build if, on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of irritants or if on the other hand the poor sit back, expecting charity. All of us must take responsibility for the upliftment of our conditions, prepared to give our best to the benefit of all

Nelson Mandela

#33. One of the first things my father taught me was that the library was made for and available to me. It's a place where you not only learn from books but you learn responsibility - how to borrow, take care of, and give back.

Marcus Samuelsson