James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
"Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it."
Giving Back quotes
Giving Back
32 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Plotinus
Philosopher
"I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All."
Georgia O'Keeffe
Artist
"My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Be the change that you want to see"
Ming-Dao Deng
Author
"Give back what you have learned. Share your experience."
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"But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place."
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"As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back."
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"Never the grave gives back what it has won!"
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"I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel."
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"Give back to the world at least what you've received."
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"When we Consistently Generate Thoughts of Giving ... we Attract the Energy of Giving Back to Us"
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"My mother always wanted to give back."
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