Quotes About Contribution

We cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individual. Toward this end, each of us must work toward his own highest development, accepting at the same time his share of responsibility in the general life of humanity—our particular duty being to help those to whom we feel we can be most useful.

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

What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?

If the room were always like this there would be no need for our new rule. Everyone is occupied with individual projects directed toward a goal created by the teacher. No one is excluded; every contribution will be given equal attention and find equal expression in the margins of the Magpie story. No problems here. The rule is needed for all those other times, the bulk of the day, when public and private needs and obligations are in conflict.

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.

quality control departments have taken the job of quality away from the people that can contribute most to quality—management, supervisors, managers of purchasing, and production workers.

I'm both challenged and excited. My excitement is: I get a chance to give something back. My challenge is: The shortest seminar I usually do is 50 hours.

The Muslim community should not be treated as a problematic community, but treated as a community that is willing to play its role in the mainstream.

Be yourself, know your power, have confidence in what you have to contribute.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

First, as should be clear by now, I believe that dispensing God's grace is the Christian's main contribution

I think that man was half-right. He is better off out of the game - but the game may not be better off without him. A man should not exist for himself alone. Life made an investment in him, and that investment was not paid off.

A mere speck that nevertheless constantly contributed to the good of the whole--is you, you who have forgotten that nothing is created except to provide the entire universe with a life of prosperity. You forget that creation is not for your benefit: you exist for the sake of the universe.

Everyone has something to contribute. Everyone but sociopaths.

He said, "Busy is happy," and I suspected that his mother had counseled him about the satisfaction and the peace that come from giving to the world whatever you are capable of contributing.

So for anybody who feels guilty that they're taking time away from their family, or the cost of what they are doing, they should not feel guilty, because they are contributing [...] they are teaching what it means to have a dream and to be passionate about something. Nothing of value comes easy.

Don't just aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference.

Don't just aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference

A very important but difficult piece of renewing relationships is accepting responsibility for our part in any conflict. If we have a relationship in need of repair, we must remember that the wrong is not usually all on one side, and we are more easily able to restore relations when we look at our contribution to a conflict.

IN WHICH MRS. FIGG TAKES A HAND

An assist is like a goal for me.