Olivia Holt Quotes

To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.

In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.

I was very engaged in my communities throughout college, but I never thought of it as political.

Lady Maccon cogitated. She would like to encourage this new spirit of social-mindedness. If Felicity needed anything in her life, it was a cause. Then she might stop nitpicking everyone else.

My interest in community is what fuels my work as a writer, more than just wanting to write or just wanting to have a TV show.

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.

Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

I had the opportunity at Duke to start doing things in the community, and it's something I continue to do even 20 years later.

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

I want to help find opportunities for people to become active participants in their communities.

To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.

When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.

I want to change the world. I want to be a part of culture. I want to help teach.

I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.

When you travel and when you campaign, people tell you their problems. You see the problems and you become aware of them and you talk about them every day. And so you feel the responsibility for doing something about them.

When I was very young, I took no interest in party politics. My line of interest was how can you be part of an influence to the society that you live in.

I am a basic social activist with small-business experience, and you go where you need to go.

Reading has helped motivate me to become a spokesperson for programs like the WrestleMania Reading Challenge. It has motivated me to become more involved in my community and to keep learning new things.

To be known as an actor is to be known for your role and lines. But the country knows me for the stance I have taken, for the villages I have adopted, the social work I do, the comfort zone I have left.

I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.

I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That's the important thing.

Having seen my mom in community volunteer work my whole life and in Congress for 25 years, it is true as she often says that she sees her service as an extension of her role as a mother and a grandmother.

I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.