Annie Lennox Quotes

I have always been interested in giving back, and I wouldn't want to know a life without giving.

Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.

My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.

As a person, you want to feel like you're giving back. That's something I've always enjoyed doing.

For me, success is being able to give back to your friends, your family, your community, those in need and the world entire.

The gratification of helping others is a very American tradition and a Judeo-Christian tradition. Now it is great to see young people creating funds and giving back in all sorts of productive ways. It's a terrifically satisfying thing.

Doing good for the community is something that should be a part of who you are. The more you get, the more you should give back.

I'm not in public service, nor do I ever plan to be, but I give back in my own way.

Every one of us has the ability to raise awareness, volunteer, educate our friends and family, and give back to our communities.

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.

We feel like if we can give back, that's what we are called to do. So we've been fortunate to do a lot of really cool things and touch a lot of people's lives.

I have taken my children all over the world to see things but I've also made a point that they need to give something back for being so blessed.

[On charity] I try to pick subjects that I can learn about and then focus on and then do as much as I can. If you have a tremendous amount of heat from the spotlight, then you're able to shine a little bit more of your light in a different direction. It's just deflecting. My dad calls it a celebrity credit card that you can cash in. I think if you're in this position you should do it.

I do things - whether it's donations or events for good causes or giving back to my community - for the right reason: because I want to. Because it's the best thing to do. I wanna help someone else out.

I think it's important to be involved with charities that don't necessarily reflect what you're dealing with in your life.

ANYONE WHO GIVES ANYTHING—TIME, MONEY, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, AND NETWORKS—IN ANY AMOUNT, TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD.

The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise as a whole.

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.

But celebrity really doesn't mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I've always felt that way.

I always knew that I would give back. My mother and my father both believe you have to work hard and give back. That's why I was a volunteer firefighter, that's why I worked in a homeless shelter. I always knew I'd give back, elective office or not.

My parents taught us it's important to give back.

Anyone who has been as successful as I have should want to share those resources. Why not give some of it to charity?

While visiting Costa Rica, I was inspired to hear that someone had donated a playground to a local school. So when I returned to L.A., one day I just called the principal of a nearby elementary school and asked what I could do. Five years later, I've helped make over nine schools, repainting, renovating, and fixing up playgrounds.

Acting is a smaller piece in a big puzzle. There are charity things I want to immerse myself in and want to have the time to go and give back to people who don't have the opportunities I have. It's a very important thing to me.

When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.