Joe Manchin Quotes

The idea of community and helping others has always been a part of who I am. Growing up, my parents always made sure that my siblings and I were doing our part to serve our local community.

I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.

I think the main thing is to find something you care about. A cause. I think it starts with others. Who do you look up to? Who do you want to help? Start in your own community.

When I see other people out there, involved, and really giving their time and effort for the kids, then I don't mind giving my time and effort for the kids as well.

The great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

As my parents taught me, by both words and deeds, a life of public services is as much a gift to the person who serves as it is to those he's serving.

I feel that public service is so important and giving back, being a role model and helping people in need is something that I would love to do.

Every day, Iowans step up and make a difference together through volunteerism.

The idea of service leads to community.

I love helping the kids.

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.

I believe giving back is one of the greatest life lessons we can teach our children: that the world isn't all about them and that, through our actions, people will really discover what kind of a person we truly are.

I'm here to save someone. I really want to help other people, especially the youth.

Every day, people serve their neighbors and our nation in many different ways, from helping a child learn and easing the loneliness of those without a family to defending our freedom overseas. It is in this spirit of dedication to others and to our country that I believe service should be broadly and deeply encouraged.

I just want to be a better person to the community.

I'm all for doing positive. I've worked in the community. My wife, she's spending her life basically giving back to the community. That's something that we take pretty seriously, man.

Giving back has definitely kept me grounded. Stepping outside of yourself to serve a group or community of people who are in need in some facet has a way of doing that. I don't ever want to grow to a place where giving back becomes a foreign concept.

Community service has been a great thing for me.

It feels good to be in a place now where I can give back to my community.

Service that benefits the community and those in need is an act that betters us all.

I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.

All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

It's never too early to involve your kids in giving back. And the more hands-on the experiences are, the better.

Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.