Martina McBride Quotes

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

I'm just so very lucky to be able to do what I do for a living, and giving back is a way for me to express my gratitude. I'm so lucky to be in a position to help people, and that's appealing to me.

I was raised to believe that you need to leave the world a better place than how you found it, as corny as that sounds.

For me, personally, I feel like that's my duty while I'm on this earth is to serve others and use my blessing to bless others. If I'm not doing that, I feel like I'm not serving my purpose. That's my goal, that's my passion, and that's what I intend to do for the rest of my life.

I'm very aware that just driving blindly towards money won't get me anything. I drive blindly towards making the world a better place.

I'm not the biggest star in the world, but I do have a platform, and if I can use that platform to help somebody else, why wouldn't I?

If I can help one person in this world, then it's enough, and I've done my job.

For me personally, to hop onboard and use the amazing success and blessings in my life to pull off something like the 30/30 Project is awesome.

I love to be able to do something positive with what celebrity I have. I like to be able to make it about something bigger than me; if I can help in some way, I'm happy to do that.

I'm using my platform to help out a little bit, you know. It's only right.

It's a rare opportunity when you can do something for the greater good.

I feel like sometimes I'm in a position to really do some good, so I try to do that.

All we can do is just think about what we can put into the world - not really kind of what we can get out of it.

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.

If I can't give back to the society, then this isn't a good life I am leading.

Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service. Over the course of my career, I've been fortunate to always encounter others who share that philosophy.

I always knew that I wanted to do the most that I could for the most people.

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.

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'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra.

Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.

I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society.

I've been blessed to live my dream more than half my life, so I want help give that back to someone else.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Doing charity work is always cool. It's always a good thing.