Quotes About Contribution

But it is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life. Your mind is the basis of everything you experience and of every contribution you make to the lives of others. Given this fact, it makes sense to train it.

I learned from a very early age that it was important for us kids to help provide for the home, to be contributors rather than just takers. In the process, of course, we learned how much hard work it took to get your hands on a dollar, and that when you did it was worth something. One thing my mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money: they just didn't spend it.

But think of this: those of us who arrive in an academy that was not shaped by or for us bring knowledges, as well as worlds, that otherwise would not be here. Think of this: how we learn about worlds when they do not accommodate us. Think of the kinds of experiences you have when you are not expected to be here. These experiences are a resource to generate knowledge.

The Russian Jews, he concludes, can make an important contribution to the necessary revival of religious feeling. Their totalitarian experience has matured their souls as well as toughened their minds.

The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.

The great game of life is not about money; it is about doing your best to join the battle to build anew ourselves, our communities, our nation, and our world.

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

but that they would be forced to participate in or help celebrate

Corvino, whose contribution is—like its author—sophisticated, civil, and well-informed.

The psychologist, in his most remote and technical occupation with mechanism, is contributing his bit to that ordered knowledge which alone enables mankind to secure a larger and to direct a more equal flow of values in life.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.

You were created to add to life on earth, not just take from it. God wants you to give something back.

Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.

Use life to provide something that outlasts it.

When you express your unique talents and use them in the service of humanity, you create abundance in your life and the lives of others.

Life's gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it.

There are no bystanders in this life.

It doesn't matter that I play football. Anybody can make a difference in life.

It is impossible to need excuses when the focus of your life shifts from 'What's in it for me?' to 'How can I serve?'

Commit a little bit more to the world outside of your own life. Get people talking.

We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.