Quotes About Contribution

shift: from seeking legitimacy in society to constructing a meaningful legacy.

living a life rich with accomplishment and contribution did not have to come through the sacrifice of peace of mind.

Todos los grandes hombres y mujeres del mundo son personas que dan, no toman. Renunciad a la creencia común de que aquellos que más acumulan son los que más ganan. En lugar de eso, escoged un trabajo heroico: que deje perplejo a vuestro mercado por la calidad de su originalidad y por la utilidad que ofrece.

no matter what you have achieved, no matter how many summer homes you own, no matter how many cars sit in your driveway, the quality of your life will come down to the quality of your contribution.

You cannot pursue success; success ensues. It flows as the unintended but inevitable by–product of a life spent serving people and adding value to the world.

Todos los grandes hombres y mujeres del mundo son personas que dan, no toman.

I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.

At this point, Bill decided that John should contribute to the family upkeep and pay him the same rent he had given to Mrs. Woodin.

The comment smacked of aristocratic disdain for the self-made man. In fact, no immigrant in American history has ever made a larger contribution than Alexander Hamilton.

In its thirty-year existence, the GEB dispensed $130 million, equal to more than $1 billion today.

Science today owes as much to the rich men of generosity and discernment

The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

there remains the big picture, the question of how much randomness contributes to where we are in life and how well we can predict where we are

For the Congregation this new movement involves the danger of learning to think that the Services are done for them; and that their bodily presence is all they need contribute. And, for Clergy and Congregation alike, it involves the danger of regarding these elaborate Services as ends in themselves, and of forgetting that they are simply means, and the very hollowest of mockeries, unless they bear fruit in our lives.

I'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters

The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood.

When families bring children into the world, train them in faith and sound values, and teach them to contribute to society, they become a blessing in our world.

Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.

Unless we take care of the society we live in, there won't be any society left to support our businesses. We have to give as much as we extract.