51+ Best Giving Back Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Giving back is to return something to the person who gave it to you. Inspirational giving back quotes will encourage growth in life, make you wiser and broaden your perspective.

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Most Famous Giving Back Quotes

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth. Muhammad Ali

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

Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they’re priceless. Sherry Anderson

Go out into the world and do good until there is too much good in the world. Larry H. Miller

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

At the end of the day, it’s not about what you have or even what you’ve accomplished, it’s about who you’ve lifted up, who you’ve made better. It’s about what you’ve given back.  Denzel Washington

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Mahatma Gandhi

The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime. Joan Marques

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. Oscar Wilde

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.  Aesop

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands  one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. Audrey Hepburn

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.  Albert Pike

Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain loving one another. Erma Bombeck

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 person we truly are.  Gretchen Carlson

You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartache for other folks, you are a pretty rich man. Seth Parker

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.  Muhammad Ali

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others? Martin Luther King, Jr.

Even if it’s a little thing, do something for those who need of a man’s help something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For, remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here, too  Albert Schweitzer

Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place. Natalie Portman

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?  Martin Luther King Jr.

The purpose of life is not to be happy, but to matter to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. Leo Rosten

Give yourself entirely to those around you. Be generous with your blessings. A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal. Steve Maraboli

Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart. Elizabeth Andrew

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.  Oscar Wilde

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another.

If you’re not reaching back to help anyone, then you’re not building a legacy.  Germany Kent

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. John E. Southard

Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they’re priceless.  Sherry Anderson

It’s easy to make a buck.  It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.  Tom Brokaw

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. Maya Angelou

If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart. Rumi

If you want to touch the past, touch a rock.  If you want to touch the present, touch a flower.  If you want to touch the future, touch a life

Volunteers are love in motion!

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.  Kahlil Gibran

The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering:  Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good. Ivan Scheier

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late Ralph Waldo Emerson

How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world  but only with compassion can you heal and build it.  Rasheed Ogunlaru

Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful.

Love cannot remain by itself it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.  Mother Teresa

Help one another. There’s no time like the present, and no present like the time. James Durst

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.  H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. Dr. Seuss

If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever. Kofi Annan

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. Mother Teresa

It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.  Albert Einstein

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. Malayan Proverb

You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man.  Seth Parker

At the end of the day it’s not about what you have or even what you’ve accomplished, it’s about who you’ve lifted up, who you’ve made better. It’s about what you’ve given back. Denzel Washington

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.  Audrey Hepburn