Contribution Quotes

In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to these [individual and group] differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

I feel good about the work I do on Survivor and am proud of my contribution.

Having one less child is the biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet

The Navy-Marine Corps team is unique in history because its mobility and versatility permit it to make a contribution in virtually every medium of warfare: land, sea and air.

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

If the Egyptian people can create a democracy in the heart of the Arab world, it will be a more significant contribution to civilization than the great pyramids.

Your life has purpose as long as you dedicate it to love. It's not what we do but who we are that forms our biggest contribution.

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.

The only way people will have the trust to give their all to their job is if they feel like their contribution is recognized and valued.

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.

You weren't created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution.

If there are lessons to be drawn from the sciences, then that should be the concern of everyone, including scientists to the extent that they can make a contribution.

I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set standards, make everyone else itch to emulate.

There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it's time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America's children.

The greatest contribution to the Mexican table imaginable

A life without impact and contribution is a very empty life, so use your life to make the world better.

What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some kind of contribution.

The most precious contribution we can make here on Earth is to create the lives we want to be living, communicating in all ways, to everyone around us, that success is really possible.

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

Be more interested in people's character, than their contributions.

The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.

Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.

The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.

My own share making contribution [to the the well-being of humanity]. So I never feel I am something special.

I tend to look at potential investments from the standpoint of whether it is a valuable contribution to society.

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.

The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts.

Our consciousness is our contribution to reality. What we perceive as real, becomes real.

It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.

The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.

Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.

When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to make a contribution to.

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.

Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends.

Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and mass culture.

To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.

We should listen to both philosophers and scientists, because the philosophical contribution is different from the scientific contribution, and both of them are worthwhile.

So many young people feel powerless. We live in a world where it feels like it's so big and yet so small, and that your contribution really doesn't matter.

Be involved; be informed. Make meaningful contributions to society through service and involvement.

Music is my contribution to life. I have my heart in it.

I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.