Quotes About Contribution

sThat's enriched my life more than I can say. Of course you could do more—you can always do more, and you should do more—but still, the important thing is to do what you can, whenever you can.

Of course you could do more—you can always do more, and you should do more—but still, the important thing is to do what you can, whenever you can.

Wat is mijn kathedraal? Ik werk aan een kathedraal die ik niet ken en als hij voltooid is, zal ik er niet meer zijn en niemand zal weten dat ik eraan heb gewerkt.

It is the great glory of the quest for human knowledge that, while making some small contribution to that quest, we can also continue to learn and to take pleasure in learning.

Finally, everyone who plays a part is, tacitly at least, implicated in the outcome.

Part You can give each person a part to play in both the plan and the outcome. People need a tangible way to contribute and participate.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

A man who is present as a consumer, yet who does not contribute either by land, labor, or capital to the work of society, is a burden. On

Every man in society is bound in nature and reason to contribute to the strength and welfare of society. He ought to work, to be peaceful, honest, just, and virtuous. A

In a free state every man is held and expected to take care of himself and his family, to make no trouble for his neighbor, and to contribute his full share to public interests and common necessities. If

The Forgotten Man works and votes—generally he prays—but his chief business in life is to pay.

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.

individual thought is mostly the result of collective thought and of interaction with other people. The language is entirely collective, and most of the thoughts in it are. Everybody does his own thing to those thoughts – he makes a contribution. But very few change them very much.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous.

A boddhisattva is someone who is on the way to becoming a buddha. All of us become boddhisattvas as soon as we start to take our Zen work seriously and the work we do contributes to creating a world in which all good actions become more efficacious.

What we give to our community in pennies, our communities give back to us in dollars.

God never intended for an individual to solve all of life's problems. He intended for each one of us to use whatever resources and gifts He gave us to make a difference where we are.13

I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.

I'm lucky, today and every day I'm alive. I still have time to get things done, to enjoy the gift of life, and to do something with it, to make a significant contribution." I say