Quotes About Contribution

Let your actions speak louder than words, however: professionalism matters, while popularity is illusory, fleeting, and short-lived. Your contributions to the field, by enhancing service, creating new models to replace outdated practice, and quietly working to improve communities, matter most.

Whether people work for themselves or for others, they increasingly want to understand how their actions are contributing to a greater good.They will want to be engaged in work that contributes to society.

Meaning comes from engagement in positive work that challenges our personal capacity combined with knowledge that our positive work is making a larger contribution to the overall well-being of humanity and life on the planet.

Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.

je n'aurais peut-être pas fait grand-chose de bien dans ma vie, mais au moins j'aurais contribué à détruire la planète – et je sabotais systématiquement le programme de tri sélectif mis en Å"uvre par le syndic de l'immeuble en balançant les bouteilles de vin vides dans la poubelle réservée aux papiers et emballages, les déchets périssables dans le bac de collecte du verre.

puede que no hubiera hecho gran cosa en mi vida, pero al menos habría contribuido a destruir el planeta–

took to heart Jack's concerns about my being on the search committee. Would I be serving the church or my own ends? (Both, I decided. Two to four hundred hours of work was not a negligible contribution, and if I got material for a book as well, who could say I hadn't earned it?)

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

I realised what I could offer the South African Police Force. It was only later when the Force became the Service that I realised the contribution that I could make to the community as well.

Presume to put in her oar.

He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie.

Consuming culture is never as rewarding as producing it.

But consuming culture is never as rewarding as producing it.

Assimilating the style of predecessors is necessary before one can develop one's own. Only by immersing oneself in the domain can one find out whether there is room left for contributing creatively to it, and whether one is capable of doing so.

Flow is important both because it makes the present instant more enjoyable, and because it builds the self-confidence that allows us to develop skills and make significant contributions to humankind.

To say that the theory of relativity was created by Einstein is like saying that it is the spark that is responsible for the fire. The spark is necessary, but without air and tinder there would be no flame.

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree, or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

My life is nothing. It wouldn't have any meaning without putting it to good use. Don't you think?

My life is nothing. It wouldn't have any meaning without putting it to good use

But I don't love being asked to be an investor in a crowd-funded honeymoon. Here is why: it's not especially emotionally rewarding to know that I paid for three of five nights of a yurt rental in Big Sur.

Be creative. Thus we contribute and thus we elevate our souls.

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

Eventually, more than 150,000 women served as WACs during World War II, making them the first women other than nurses to join the U.S. Army.