Paying It Forward Quotes
Paying It Forward
Welcome! Here are a few quotes about paying it forward. Feel free to browse my entire quote collection, and use the sayings and adages to inspire you and get you moving towards the life you want. Feel free to put them up on your walls or use them in your correspondence.
Paying It Forward
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
- Carl Schurz
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
- Seneca in Letters to Lucilius
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
- Sir Winston Churchill
No person was ever honored for what he received, but for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
You cannot give from an empty basket.
- Anonymous
If there is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to put yourself in the other person's place and to see things from his point of view - as well as your own.
There is no wealth but life.
- John Ruskin
You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end.
- Sidney A. Friedman
Life is a promise; fulfill it.
It is better to wear out than rust out.
Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life.
- Norman Cousins
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
- Henry Drummond
The future must be seen in terms of what a person can do to contribute something, to make something better, to make it go where he believes with all his being it ought to go.
- Frederick R. Kappel
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