Contribution Quotes

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  We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Success is making a positive difference to other people, especially seeing others grow, succeed and thrive as a result of your own small contribution.

  Azran Osman Rani

  Differences, People, Succeed

  Source: sea.askmen.com

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• Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Family

  Twitter post from Aug 01, 2015

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  We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Christian, Wisdom

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.213, Image

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  Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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• Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

  Stephen Covey

  Life Is, Accumulation

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• You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Meaningful

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• You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiration

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• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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  If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

  Michelle Obama

  Treats, Janitor, Humility And Gratitude

  Democratic National Convention Speech, www.npr.org. September 04, 2012.

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• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Freedom, Business

  "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

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• A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

  Angela Merkel

  Inspiring, Compromise

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

  Walter Reuther

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Helping Others

  Walter Reuther (1961). “Selected Papers”, New York : Macmillan

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• When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Quoted in Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone (1972)

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• Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Team, Leader, Mind

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• What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Differences, Numbers, People

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• The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Helping Others, Ideas, Giving

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.132, Princeton University Press

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• I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Kwanzaa, True Joy, Privilege And Responsibility

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• Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Marketing, Advertising

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

  Marianne Williamson

  Motivational, Acting, Levels

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.

  Susannah McCorkle

  Past, Heritage, Magazines

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• Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.

  Haldan Keffer Hartline

  Culture, Care, Scientist

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• The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.

  Cofer Black

  Strong, War, Player

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• I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

  Alan Paton

  Love, Peace, Pride

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