Top 100 To Give Back Quotes
#1. My parents taught us it's important to give back.
Jenna Bush
#2. For whatever reason, God has blessed me with the ability, put me in a position to make these leaps and bounds. I'm fulfilling my part of the bargain, which is to give back and be a positive influence on others.
Denzel Washington
#3. I traveled all over the South looking for factories - to keep production in the South. I wanted to give back to the place and people that raised me.
Reese Witherspoon
#4. At the end of the day, you either want or you don't want to know about it. It's a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to.
Thierry Henry
#5. It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.
Eddie Money
#6. I would just love to be able to give back to figure skating.
Michelle Kwan
#7. I'm able to impact kids' lives, I'm able to give back and I will impact so many kids' lives because I feel like that moment taught me that no matter where you are in life, no matter what you may want in life you keep going.
La'el Collins
#8. If someone told me I had to give back, or I'm supposed to give back, or I'm supposed to do these things, I would reject that. My actions are those of valuing and caring.
Mike Vallely
#9. I think it's a responsibility for everyone to give back.
Stacy Keibler
#10. Business has a responsibility to give back to the community.
Ben Cohen
#11. For me, success is being able to give back to your friends, your family, your community, those in need and the world entire.
Richie Sambora
#12. I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
Plotinus
#13. When you have what you want (inner peace), you are less distracted by your wants, needs, desires, and concerns. It's thus easier to concentrate, focus, achieve your goals, and to give back to others.
Richard Carlson
#14. IT'S A LITTLE HARD FOR ME TO STAND BEHIND THE WALLS OF THE GREAT MANSION AND PLAY ROCK AND ROLL STAR. I FEEL THE NEED TO GIVE BACK.
Jon Bon Jovi
#15. 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
#16. It feels good to give back to the people who support you.
Adrian Peterson
#17. I'd really like to give back to the world, but everything I've achieved, I've earned on my own, so what's the point?
Zach Braff
#18. CalArts was incredible for me. It's a school that I rave about and constantly want to give back to.
Derek Magyar
#19. I know it sounds cliche, but to give back is important. Sometimes we're given so much, we need to do something for other people. I think that's really important.
Stefanie Scott
#20. You never know what life can hand you, but YOU have the choice and power to give back love and kindness in all you do and how you treat others.
Angela Rockwood
#21. My parents really raised me with the value that it's important to give back, and I've always gravitated towards non-profits and charities that work with children.
Danielle Panabaker
#22. My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#23. As a youngster in the projects, I definitely didn't have anything. So if you get something, you want to be able to give back and help others.
Tyson Chandler
#25. She listened for the pain in my words, not to the narrative itself. She was intuiting what it meant to me, what was most important, what, in that confused mass of experience and yearning she heard in my voice, she could single out to give back.
Alice Sebold
#26. 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
#27. I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.
S. Truett Cathy
#28. I'm never going to forget Wellston. It's where I grew up. It's my heart and my pride. The people are great here. I'm going to give back. I was born and raised here. I'm a humble person. The community knows that. I want to build it back to how it was and be a happier place than it was.
Ben McLemore
#29. Stars have a life cycle much like animals. They get born, they grow, they go through a definite internal development, and finally they die, to give back the material of which they are made so that new stars may live
Hans Bethe
#30. I want to be someone that kids in my community look up to and want to strive to give back when they grow up.
Ray Rice
#31. Giving back to my community is great, but I must never forget to give back to God in the solitude of prayer.
Laura Domino
#32. It just felt like the right thing to do to give back to a state school and public school. I'm a really big fan of public education.
Brendan Iribe
#33. Charity work is very important to me and gives me an opportunity to give back to my community. I've always been a big supporter of many different charities, have donated millions of dollars to them, and it just feels great to do and be able to help others, especially children.
Richard MacDonald
#34. I would just say, if Gov. Romney wants to give back all the money he's earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees over his years at Bain, that I would be glad to listen to him. And I would bet you $10 - not $10,000 - that he would not take the offer.
Newt Gingrich
#35. I very much believe in teaching young people about philanthropy, and to give back.
Lynn Schusterman
#36. No one should be allowed to give back the gift of life, unless they are very old and full of tears, when the body outlives the spirit, when they should be allowed to join the others who've already gone.
Fay Weldon
#37. People wait until late in their career to give back. But why wait when there is so much to be done?
Mark Zuckerberg
#38. I am not preoccupied with collecting more goods and services; quite simply, my desire and effort - every day - is to pay back, to give back to the world a bit of what I have received.
Richard Rohr
#39. I believe that God plays this enormous role in my life. And I believe that it's my obligation to give back and to follow the rules that were set. And it also gives me an enormous sense of my own place.
Ronald Perelman
#40. I decided to join the military to give back to my country and help pay for college.
Steve Stivers
#41. Those of us who have been very fortunate have a duty to give back. Whether one gives a lot as one goes along as I do or a little and then a lot [when one dies] as Warrendoes is a matter of personal preference. I would hate to have people ask me for money all day long.
Charlie Munger
#42. With a generation of younger folks who have thrived on the success of their companies, there is a big opportunity for many of us to give back earlier in our lifetime and see the impact of our philanthropic efforts.
Mark Zuckerberg
#43. I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.
Steve Harvey
#44. 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
#45. Never take more out of life, than you intend to give back.
Robert M. Hensel
#46. The more we give, the more we receive. It's important to give back, because the seeds you plant today, you will harvest tomorrow.
Farrah Gray
#47. For us, my wife and I and all of my partners believe that corporations have to be corporate citizens, and individuals who benefit from them, or who have built them, need to give back.
Mark Walter
#48. I would just say that if Governor Romney would like to give back all the money he's earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees over his years at Bain that I would be glad to then listen to him. I'll bet you $10, not $10,000, that he won't take the offer.
Newt Gingrich
#49. A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.
Ellen Ochoa
#50. It would be great to give back to this city and its youth brigade important lessons that will help them become future champions. I look forward to this opportunity.
Pat Cash
#51. The blessing is not about being able to receive as much as it is being in a position to give back to others.
Justin Bieber
#52. I felt I had to give back to our wonderful country which has been so good to me and to my family.
Donald Trump
#53. We should feel grateful instead of entitled. We have a moral obligation to give back.
Bill Courtney
#54. The time for common-sense immigration reform is now," Grayson said in a news release. "We must set forth a straightforward route to citizenship for the undocumented immigrants who already live in our communities, work for our businesses and want to give back to the country that they call home.
Alan Grayson
#55. Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we're made for, and what we're responsible to give back to life.
Tony Robbins
#56. My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.
Victoria Justice
#58. Everyone always helped me out growing up, and everyone now supports me Sunday. So whenever there's a chance to give back, to the community, to the less fortunate kids so they have the opportunity to gain the most potential they can in their life to be success, it's always good to do.
Rob Gronkowski
#59. That we are selfish gives us the opportunity to gain the power so that, in time, we might be selfless. To give back what we have learned. To teach what we know, and shorten the journey for those who will come after us.
Margaret Cho
#60. The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what we do. It's a great platform for us to give back to the community that started me in the game and other communities.
Zach Johnson
#61. 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
#62. My music is mostly for the music. And it gives the liberty to do anything which I want. And nobody limits me to one genre of music. But I learn from life and I try to give back to life, in a way, whether it's the thought of the song or whether it's the approach to the arrangement or anything.
A.R. Rahman
#63. Many entrepreneurs that made their fortunes by founding successful technology companies want to give back and solve the world's biggest problems on a grand scale. There is tremendous opportunity in this approach.
Peter Diamandis
#64. The U.K. and the U.S. could not have been built today without Africa's aid. It is all the resources that were taken from Africa, including human, that built these countries today! So when they try to give back, we shouldn't be on the defensive.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
#65. Selfish isn't a dirty word. It means we take care of ourselves and are able to give back.
Jillian Michaels
#66. I remember asking my dad, "Why didn't you ever move to the States? You probably could have made a lot more money." My dad said, "Because I have an obligation to give back." I always admired him for that.
Will Arnett
#67. 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
#68. In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much," she said. "See, that's why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service.
Michel'le
#69. I give away about 50 percent of my income, so my, you know, desire to give back to the country is pretty strong and I intend to give away a lot more. I've signed the giving pledge with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, and I intend to give away the bulk of my money.
David Rubenstein
#70. To me, money is the ability to create lifelong experiences for my family and myself, to educate my children and a way to give back to humanity.
Cat Cora
#71. At the beginning, you are 20 and you can just imagine ... don't get me wrong, but having money. Then you realise that it's not only about you and what you are doing but that you have to give back.
Thierry Henry
#72. To derive joy from simple things; to derive joy from beautiful, giving persons; to give back, indeed to give away; to be thankful, as we are so often told we must be, for small mercies.
Arun Shourie
#73. When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.
Darius Rucker
#74. I have always looked for ways to give back because I think it's a responsibility we all share.
Avril Lavigne
#75. Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#76. I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#77. The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
Karl Shapiro
#78. We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe ... If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal.
Ray Bradbury
#79. I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back.
Richard M. Daley
#80. You know, if your parents didn't have you, they'd be living in a nicer home, driving a Mercedes-Benz, with money in the bank and a boat. But noooooo. They had to have you! You've got to give back!
Richard Simmons
#81. I can't spell or do grammar, but I'm smarter and more serious than people think. I'm no featherweight when it comes to digging deep and being involved. So many stars I know do so much. It's our duty to give back.
Cher
#82. My parents sacrificed so much for all of us. It makes me want to give back to them by being the best I can be.
Diana Lopez
#83. Music and philanthropy have a long, benevolent relationship with one another. Record bins are rife with charity singles, and concert history is filled with benefit shows for every imaginable cause. Musicians like to give back.
Shawn Amos
#84. But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.
Lindsey Buckingham
#85. Put your heart into even the smallest seemingly insignificant acts possible. Then be patient enough for the universe to give back to you what you reap.
Matthew Donnelly
#86. At the moment, our society's notion of success is largely composed of two parts: money and power. But it's time for a third metric, beyond money and power - one founded on well-being, wisdom, our ability to wonder, and to give back.
Arianna Huffington
#87. We went to church every Sunday. I do think it's my duty to give back. That's why I'm involved with St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital and the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
Jesse McCartney
#88. Los Angeles is such a great meritocracy. Where can someone with my background - don't have the right family background, the right religion, the right provenance or whatever you want to call it - I come here and I'm accepted. The city's been good to me. And I want to give back.
Eli Broad
#89. As a club, we have an educational purpose: to give back to those people who love Arsenal so that they learn moral values from our game and how we behave.
Arsene Wenger
#90. I always learned to be philanthropic ... to give back.
Charlotte Rae
#91. You always have to give back to the fans. I remember being a fan of television and film when I was growing up and if I would've had the opportunity to meet somebody that I watched on television, it would've made my day, it would've made my life.
Jon Huertas
#92. When I talk to people who feel this emptiness and lack of fulfillment, I recommend they find a source of balance in their lives. I suggest they find a way to "give back" to the world in order to feel a sense of completeness ...
Harold S. Kushner
#93. Trying to give back a little bit is important.
Mark Goddard
#94. My dad served 21 years and my mom did 13, so through that process, they taught me that I always have to give back.
Robert Griffin III
#95. I think it's really important to give back and show other people that you care.
Carly Schroeder
#96. I'm so lucky, I've been so successful, so much has come my way. I want to give back.
Vendela Kirsebom
#97. I'm benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe it to have a season of service in which we try to give back.
Terri Sewell
#98. In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to give back to the people.
Matthew Continetti
#99. But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
Vernon Jordan
#100. Don't be a slave to style. Don't take more from the world than you're willing to give back. And learn to undo the perceptions-so heavily promoted by the media-that shopping is a form of therapy and that a purchase is nothing but a victory or a gain.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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