Quotes About Contribution

Supongo que lo importante es aportar algo –dijo ella–. Cambiar las cosas, vaya. –¿En qué sentido, el de "cambiar el mundo"? –No, todo el mundo no, sólo la pequeña parte que te rodea.

A group of people get together and exist as an institution we call a company so they are able to accomplish something collectively that they could not accomplish separately – they make a contribution to society, a phrase which sounds trite but is fundamental.

He once told me, Instead of scoring thirty goals a season, why don't you score twenty-five and help someone else to score fifteen? That way the team's ten goals better off.

Submit to being called a neurotic. You belong to that splendid and pitiable family which is the salt of the earth. All the greatest things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they and they only who have founded religions and created great works of art. Never will the world be conscious of how much it owes to them, nor above all of what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it. —MARCEL PROUST, Guermantes Way, Vol. I

Also, in global wealth distribution, less than 10% of the world's population controls more than 90% of the world's assets, varying from country to country. Even in our daily work lives, 20% of all actions we do contribute to 80% of our daily results. Richard

I felt like I was only just beginning to make a useful contribution. In persuing my education and my career, I had made many sacrifices, invested a lot in the future. And suddenly I was facing the possibility that there would be no future at all.

Today is your day and mine, the only day we have, the day in which we play our part. What our part may signify in the great whole we may not understand, but we are here to play it, and now is the time. This we know, it is a part of action, not of whining. It is a part of love, not cynicism. It is for us to express love in terms of human helpfulness. This we know, for we have learned from sad experience that any other course of life leads toward decay and waste.

On the other hand, Clairaut reported that Lepaute exhibited an "ardor" that was "surprising"—perhaps surprising to him because Lepaute was a woman; he later removed the acknowledgment of Lepaute's considerable contribution from the published text. (Much of her later work was published without attribution by other people, including her husband, France's royal clockmaker.)

Work, like marriage, is a place you can lose yourself more easily perhaps than finding yourself. It is a place full of powerful undercurrents, a place to find our selves, but also, a place to drown, losing all sense of our own voice, our own contribution and conversation.

I'm a productive citizen. Well, not productive, I mean if you add up what I bring to society and what I take out, society probably breaks even. And I'm not crazy. I mean, I know anybody can say that. But a crazy person can't fake sane, right?

If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny) Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck)

Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.

try not just to become a person of success but rather a person of value.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.

Giving is the only way of taking part

We are here not to Make Money.We are here to Make a Difference.

Just like you can't reap a harvest without planting seeds, so you can't get without giving.

Life is not only for consumption but for contribution.

Winning is something, but participation is everything.

European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat.

Do your little bit of good where you are.

One of kindness and integrity. I know I fail constantly, but I'm working towards being a reliable and worthy contributor to the world.

Quase todos nós gostamos de acreditar que somos imprescindíveis, que contribuímos com algo através da nossa existência, que esta não é inútil nem completamente indiferente. Quase todos nós gostamos de acreditar nisto, mas a maior parte sabe que não é assim... Tudo funcionaria da mesma maneira sem nós, porque somos comutáveis e substituíveis.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country