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Quotes About Contribution

Sacrifice, by its nature, was predicated on giving, not receiving.
~ Kate Atkinson
Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.
~ John Barrymore
The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.
~ John Ruskin
Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
Men have always volunteered, they just called themselves coaches, trustees, and firemen!
~ Susan J. Ellis
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The Life Triumphant is that which places what a man gives to the world in creative expression far ahead of that which he takes from it of the creations of others.
~ Walter Russell
I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
~ Adam Michnik
To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something
~ Henry Ford
All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.
~ John Calvin
Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.
~ Lin Yutang
Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me who should have the praise.
~ Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.
~ Richardson Wright
Man can find meaning in life only through devoting himself to society.
~ Albert Einstein
Let's respect women for the value - let's respect everyone, men and women, for the value they bring to the workplace.
~ Nancy Pelosi
No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.
~ Daniel Keyes
What I think is this: Man is responsible for a PART of global warming. MOST of it is still natural.
~ George Kukla
OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.
~ Linus Torvalds
A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy.
~ Harry Seidler
An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.
~ Henry David Thoreau
This is actually something no one knows, but my mom was really the one who created the entire style for 'Teen Witch.' I'm dead serious.
~ Robyn Lively
Frederick Herzberg, asserts that the powerful motivator in our lives isn't money; it's the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute to others, and be recognized for achievements.
~ Frederick Herzberg