Antoni Tapies Quotes

I just want to be a better person to the community.

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

Public service is good for you.

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.

From my early school days, I was brought up with the belief that we have a duty to use our talents, to volunteer and to make a contribution.

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 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.

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

God calls us to care for our fellow man, especially the neediest. I feel that call to lift up the less fortunate; the call to improve our communities and our state. It drives me to serve Louisiana as governor.

Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.

We are so lucky Americans are impressive with what they're willing to give. We get bashed too much. And, so many young people in this country give so much. They're not all gang bangers.

The idea of community and helping others has always been a part of who I am. Growing up, my parents always made sure that my siblings and I were doing our part to serve our local community.

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.

I try to use the attention that I get to help and to serve, and that's really what I'd see as my work - to serve my community, serve the planet, serve my family. And I think a celebrity is someone who draws the attention on themselves, and then it kind of stops there.

Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut.

For me, when I was a kid, volunteering was the last thing I was thinking about. When I see kids doing it now, it amazes me. It's very impressive, it gives them something productive to do as opposed to getting in trouble. For them to take time out at such a young age is remarkable. I think all kids should take a little time out to volunteer.

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life.

My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today.

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.

In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.

When I grew up, and I think about City Council, I look at the men and women then - these were people who just wanted to be a part of the community and give something back. They weren't necessarily trying to use it as a steppingstone to something else. I looked up to those people.