Quotes About Contribution

There is no reason why a man who is willing to work should not be able to work and to receive the full value of his work. There is equally no reason why a man who can but will not work should not receive the full value of his services to the community. He should most certainly be permitted to take away from the community an equivalent of what he contributes to it. If he contributes nothing he should take away nothing. He should have the freedom of starvation. We

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?

Use what talent you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Rand herself composed a sentence that could have come from the pen of a Southern planter: "The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all their brains.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.

Add your light to the sum of light.

What could you do to make a difference in the world?

We should be ashamed to die until we've made some major contribution to human kind.

he imagined another life for himself as one of these silent scholars, buried in his research like a guinea pig in its wood shavings, nibbling away steadily after some arcane piece of knowledge in the hope of making an addition, however imperceptible, to the collective pile.

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

Each one of us fulfills a piece of a larger puzzle.

It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

There are games where the striker will be useful for the team in terms of creating space and being involved in the game, without necessarily scoring, but he'll have played an important role for the team. But, of course, over the course of a season, I have to score goals, as that's what statistics reflect.

I hope I contribute something useful to the human family. That's my intention. And I hope that it's useful to people.

If it's good for me to go to the national team and play there - not just go there to give experience but to play and be useful - I think it's good.

I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society.

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.

The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in helping people live long and healthy lives. And this thought has always resided in the back of my mind.

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.