Ernie Hudson Quotes

You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Go home. Let me do my community service.

I personally believe that professional athletes should give back to their communities in any way possible. We are in a position to make a difference.

By getting an opportunity to serve society, we get a chance to repay our debt.

Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.

We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.

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.

I like to go home and get involved in my community.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

I feel a responsibility to try and give back. I see young people out there who are trained, and any way I can help them and give them an opportunity is gratifying.

Getting in the community, working with the kids, was a way that I felt like I could get out and make a change.

Every one of us has the ability to raise awareness, volunteer, educate our friends and family, and give back to our communities.

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.

There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.

That's what it's all about, going out and being able to help in the community and help people around you. That's going to carry far longer than basketball ever will.

I'm still very involved in my community. I give back and I'm always there for the homies. That's one of the biggest parts of what I do.

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community and I use the word very loosely. It's a big community. If I get recognized in the middle of the Sinai Desert I have a big community.

There's so much benevolence on helping your fellow person. And the morality that helped build our country is based on the values that are found in the Bible. And as we look at problems, maybe we're getting away from those values. And in my little small way, I want to encourage people to get back into those values.

There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.

Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.

I would like to inspire a lot of people to be active and give back.

Being successful entails being able to not only get along with people, but also to give something back

Throughout my life, I've seen the difference that volunteering efforts can make in people's lives. I know the personal value of service as a local volunteer.

Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.