Contribute To Society Quotes

#1. Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. Any entrepreneur worth their salt knows that their brand is worthless if it doesn't somehow contribute to society or the overall good of the planet.

Lynda Resnick

#3. The purpose of the study of judo is to perfect yourself and to contribute to society.

Kano Jigoro

#4. Education is a priority over any sport because without a mind you can't contribute to society.

Tiger Woods

#5. What is important is to see how we can best lead a meaningful everyday life, how we can bring about peace and harmony in our minds, how we can help contribute to society.

Dalai Lama

#6. I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.

Paloma Faith

#7. LearnVest provides women with the necessary tools and resources to manage their personal finances; its core mission, to positively contribute to society through education and, ultimately, the promotion of self-sufficient and financially aware women.

Alexa Von Tobel

#8. I think it means that everyone is necessary. As long as a person finds some way to contribute to society, it doesn't matter which task he chooses. We're all important.

S.L. Wallace

#9. I believe a business can contribute to society by growing and making money and paying more taxes. That's how we contribute to society.

Anonymous

#10. 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.

Pope Francis

#11. What motivates me is the chance to improve the world in my own special way; to contribute to the fight that all artists are fighting. I want to hold the mirror up to society and help them see themselves more clearly. I also love just making people laugh.

Jinkx Monsoon

#12. As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.

Cal Thomas

#13. It's not enough to withdraw from society and seek your own salvation, your own individuation. The individuator must return to society ("collectivity") to contribute his or her new insights, his or her new values, which must be at least equal to if not greater than the norm.

Gary Valentine Lachman

#14. We are a company that lives and breathes a philosophy that's centered on not only making sound business decisions but also personally and professionally finding ways to contribute to the well being of society. We are also a company that understands community.

Magic Johnson

#15. If you keep shouting, you are not making communication any better. You are only removing the talking and whispering from the system. I find our society a bit noisy. I would like to contribute a little silence.

Bruno Monguzzi

#16. To do meaningful work is to contribute - to create value in society.

Charles Koch

#17. The kind of society we live in can contribute to loneliness. Mobility and constant change tend to make some individuals feel rootless and disconnected.

Billy Graham

#18. Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society is to become akin to the gods

Montesquieu

#19. People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

Nelson Mandela

#20. I'm an actor. I love acting and being able to use my love, my passion, to also contribute to making this a better society, a better democracy, and a better country.

George Takei

#21. The divides are not Islam and western society, the divide is between people who have different values. We must promote connections between people who want to contribute to human values. People who share that commitment can collaborate across cultural divides.

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im

#22. Life in society requires consensus as an indispensable condition. But consensus, to be productive, requires that each individual contribute independently out of of his experience and insight.

Solomon E. Asch

#23. When you serve the humanity and contribute to the society without expectation, you are happy.

Debasish Mridha

#24. That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time.

Michael Baden

#25. When girls are educated and free to pursue their passions, they contribute more to a thriving society. When women have a voice, they raise it to demand a life that is greater than what they've been told they have a right to expect. And these demands change the future for everyone.

Melinda Gates

#26. To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor.

Paul A. Baran

#27. When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.

Bryan Brown

#28. Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.

Victor Pinchuk

#29. And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it.

Gunther Schuller

#30. When I was young, the concept of being a dreamer was a very negative one. If you were a dreamer, you were useless. You didn't contribute anything to society. But Star Trek made dreaming legitimate, and I think that was a huge, huge contribution.

Martin Cooper

#31. Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.

Martin Yan

#32. I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.

Warren Buffett

#33. As people grow older, some of the ways they have contributed in the past may no longer be possible, but the challenge to society is not only to provide help and care where these are needed but also to offer the opportunity to contribute and care for others [p. 8]

Mary Catherine Bateson

#34. How can you contribute towards building the Indian society and the Indian nation? No better way than to upgrade the quality of young people in school, particularly the schools which are run by the state government in the villages.

Azim Premji

#35. It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.

Adam Smith

#36. Even if we accept the view that biochemical imbalances may contribute to depression and suicide, it is a mistake to assume that the biochemical aspect of the problem is entirely within the victim. It is also partly within the physiological makeup of the people around the suicide.

David L. Conroy

#37. Enough is enough. Six years you serve the countries. You been working hard. You sacrifice your time even your life. And, even your family life. So it's, it's time for me to go back as a private citizen. And contribute to the Thai society outside political arena.

Thaksin Shinawatra

#38. Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole.

Peter Thiel

#39. Young people cannot contribute to the betterment of society if they are
constantly focusing on how to improve their own position.

Eraldo Banovac

#40. There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.

Ludwig Von Mises

#41. Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Carl Bernstein

#42. I am content and happy with my situation and like the flexibility that comes with being self-employed. And it's nice to know that I can contribute something to society

Rhonda Byrne

#43. Who do hats think they are? They contribute nothing to society, and don't even display basic manners. Has a hat ever held a door open for you? No. It hasn't.

Charlie Brooker

#44. Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.

Ogyu Sorai

#45. The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.That should be our aim: a situation in which all individuals are enabled to maximize their potential, and to contribute to the evolution of society as a whole.

Kofi Annan

#46. Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading
once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive
is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.

Alberto Manguel

#47. Giving the best to others are giving the best to us. The value of life is not based on how long we live. But, how much can we contribute to others in our society ?

Gautama Buddha

#48. What our world most requires now is the kind of education that foster love for humankind, that develops character-that provides an intellectual basis for realization of peace and empowers learners to contribute to and improve society.

Daisaku Ikeda

#49. [Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work.

Dwight D. Eisenhower