Community Giving Quotes

When I give back to the community I don't do it for anything except because I want to give back to the community.

I do think music and the arts are imperative for our kids for their creative learning and their emotional education, which breeds better adults. I'm doing what I can to try and pick up the slack and I applaud anyone who tries to give back to their community.

It doesn't have to take a Portland Trail Blazer or a professional basketball player to do good things in the community. You can work at a bank or work at a 7-Eleven.

It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.

Those of us involved in football must be aware of the power we have to help. We also have a responsibility to return to society all that society has given to us.

Causes brings over 140 million people together to form the world's largest giving community. The belief that everyone has something to give is at the core of what we do; people just need a little inspiration, and to know that whoever they are, there is something meaningful they can do.

I took it upon myself to give back to my 'hood.

Valvoline, which has called Lexington home for more than 30 years, is a great employer that gives back to our community.

When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.

I want to give back to my community, little things I think they need. I went there to open a borehole and a public lavatory and give them a book about myself that we wrote with 'Right to Play.'

When the idea came up, (Newman's Own) I said, "Are you crazy? Stick my face on the label of salad dressing?" And then, of course, we got the whole idea of exploitation and how circular it is. Why not, really, go to the fullest length, and the silliest length, in exploiting yourself and turn the proceeds back to the community?

I've always believed that it's important to give something back to the world and community.

Being successful entails being able to not only get along with people, but also to give something back

To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.

You hear about players like Jamal Crawford who's constantly giving back. Isaiah Thomas, even though he's from Tacoma, he went to U-Dub, and he's constantly giving back to the community.

I am sure that if somebody is giving a sum to charity, he or she should be encouraged to do so by the authorities because the spirit in which we encourage people to give has permeated our society.

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.

I personally believe that professional athletes should give back to their communities in any way possible. We are in a position to make a difference.

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

Sustainability is a part of our 'rise' philosophy. You cannot rise if you take more from the community than you put back.

When I was young, I originally wanted to be a radio on-air personality. Once I realized I may not be fit for that - I was infatuated with hip-hop - that I still wanted to be a part and give back the community, so I decided to carve my own path and make my own lane.

We don't have any measures in most cases of the health of our social relationships, of what we're giving to the community.

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.