Schoolboy Q Quotes

I am a firm believer that you can make a difference in someone's life - whether they're thousands of miles away, or on your own block.

Once kids begin to realize that they are connected to a greater good and greater whole, then that will lessen the possibility that they will act out violently because it creates empathy.

In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

I've always been involved with charities and things like that, but when I started communicating with the fans and hearing their stories about the lives they lead, it really made an impact on me.

If we all helped one person, wouldn't the world be an unbelievable place?

In Iowa, we take care of people. That's all I think I need to say.

I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.

I think it's very important to support those who can't help themselves - children, animals - and especially to do so in your own neighborhood.

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

We must use our empowerment for the good of others. We must be our brother’s and sister’s keeper.

I've learned that all of us should be constantly mindful of what's going on around us. Sometimes I think we get pretty single-minded in our pursuits and forget that we really do need each other. We need to actively engage in giving and helping each other every day.

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.

We have an epidemic of gun violence in America, and in trying to understand how that has happened, part of what we need to do is help equip our children to respond not with fear but with kindness. This has to be the way we go forward.

Every time you say 'I don't want to hear it' when someone is going to tell an ethnic joke, or every time you help somebody cross the street or put money in the bucket in your place of worship, you're making a difference.

You're part of the problem or the solution. Solution means, in my opinion, to be taking extra time and energy in trying to give back to the world.

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

If we don't spend our time on this earth looking out for one another, what are we really doing with our lives?