Quotes About Contribution

I learned not to wish that things were easier; rather, that I was better. I discovered that life is not about easy; it's about purpose, meaning, passion, love, contribution, sacrifice, and hard work. I discovered that life is about creating all that I can create in the short time that I'm on this planet. The same holds true for you!

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I don't want to be known for my face. I want to be known for my work.

All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.

We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions is preparing the humanity of tomorrow; it is a tiny contribution to the construction of the huge and glorious final humanity

The Gaulish language ended up contributing very little to the vocabulary of modern French. Only about a hundred Gaulish words survived the centuries, mostly rural and agricultural terms such as bouleau (birch), sapin (fir), lotte (monkfish), mouton (sheep), charrue (plow), sillon (furrow), lande (moor) and boue (mud)—that's eight percent of the total. However, Gaulish is still relatively well-known, partly because it left many place and family names in northern France.

Their legacy to America was immense, and the social sciences and humanities as well as the fine arts, music and drama would be unimaginable today without the contribution of these émigrés.

worst team member is the best predictor of how any team performs. It doesn't seem to matter how great the best member is,

Shaw resented being questioned by the Temple Planning Commission. It felt especially offensive because, besides her constant responsibilities as a foster parent, she had a day job as well, contributing her entire salary to the Temple.

One of the most compelling, universal human drives is the desire to feel that we make a difference—that because we were here, the world is a better place. Human beings are social animals, and there's something hardwired into us that needs to know that we've had an impact on the world.

I want the world to be better because I was here. I want my life, my work, my family to mean something. If you are not making someone else's life better you are wasting your time. Your life will only become better by helping make other lives better.

Father says that I'm one little instrument in the great Orchestra of Life, and that I must see to it that I'm always in tune, and don't drag or hit false notes

You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget.

We need you to reveal to us what you know, what you have learned, what you have seen and felt. If you are older, chances are strong that you may already possess absolutely everything you need to possess in order to live a more creative life - except the confidence to actually do your work. But we need you to do your work. Whether you are young or old, we need your work in order to enrich and inform our own lives.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

There was only food for those who could pull their weight.

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

There is no such thing as doing nothing. There is no such thing as neutral or uninvolved. At every moment, social life involves all of us.

As a guitarist, though much of the world didn't know it, since the Beatles' album credits rarely mentioned who played the solos, he contributed some of band's most virtuosic playing, including the stinging solo on lead guitarist George Harrison's 'Taxman.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

I strongly believe that those of us who are privileged to have wealth should contribute significantly to try and create a better world for the millions who are far less privileged.

There is no real wealth but the labor of man.

All the men of wealth should remember that everybody in a community has got, in some way, to be supported. I want to see them so that they can support themselves by their own labor.