Adrienne Clarkson Quotes

My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

As a youngster in the projects, I definitely didn't have anything. So if you get something, you want to be able to give back and help others.

I know it sounds cliche, but to give back is important. Sometimes we're given so much, we need to do something for other people. I think that's really important.

Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.

He climbs highest who helps another up.

I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.

I think the greatest thing that we can do is take care of each other.

I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

When you're doing a job that benefits other people, it's easy to assume that they feel conscious of the fact that you're doing this work - that they should feel grateful, and that they should and do feel guilty about not helping you.

I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.

When I see other people out there, involved, and really giving their time and effort for the kids, then I don't mind giving my time and effort for the kids as well.

You should want to give something back.

Giving back has definitely kept me grounded. Stepping outside of yourself to serve a group or community of people who are in need in some facet has a way of doing that. I don't ever want to grow to a place where giving back becomes a foreign concept.

The important thing is, you must give back. As good as you've been given, you must do for others as well. Somebody helped you. Who can you help, too?

It is important for me to help others because I was also helped by others before I became part of the Black Eyed Peas.

You've got to give something back. You can't just sit there.

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.

You know I think I could give a little more back to charity.

I believe that in this new world that we live in, we often have a responsibility, you know, to actually go beyond the thou shalt nots - that is, the not harming others - and say we can help others and we should be helping others.

I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others, always.

For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?

When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.