Quotes About Contribution

I always say I want to leave this world in a better state than when I arrived, and I continue to live by that message. So I'm going to do what I can to make the world a better place but also just make sure that I'm happy as well.

This country was built and continues to survive off the backs of immigrants and refugees.

And, such was the sound that the chorus made together, that to have been a part of it at all was enough for me.

You don't always have to change the whole world," Paige murmured, "just a small part of it, and sometimes those changes are small but it doesn't make them less important. Without the cog, the wheel wouldn't move.

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

This is my body. I am my soul. These are my lips. I am my word. This is my skin. I am my action. These are my legs. I am my contribution. This is my smile. I am my laughter.

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet.

We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.

Retirement is a waste of time. The economy needs you!

One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.

Employees will only add more value over time.

Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.

There is always a place in the world for those who are willing to give of their time, energy, capital, creativity, and commitment.

I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.

I try to give to most legitimate requests, but the amount of my contribution and my personal time varies greatly.

You're not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It's everybody involved; it's a collective effort.

I don't think the Church has ever contributed anything to anybody, anyplace, at any time.

It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others.

A man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and community have at heart if he would be liked.

In making this substitution I had drawn upon the wisdom of a very remote source — the wisdom of my boyhood — for the true statesman does not despise any wisdom, howsoever lowly may be its origin:  in my boyhood I had always saved my pennies and contributed buttons to the foreign missionary cause.

So often I wonder whether it is my right to capitalize, as I feel, so often, on the grief of others. But then I justify, in my own particular thoughts, by feeling that I can contribute a little to the understanding of what others are going through; then there is reason for doing it.