Life Contribution Quotes

#1. Your greatest contribution in this world is not what you have but who you are.

Debasish Mridha

#2. The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

Nelson Mandela

#3. As long as Elton John can bring forth one performance per album on the order of 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight,' the chance remains that he will become something more than the great entertainer he already is and go on to make a lasting contribution to rock.

Jon Landau

#4. All of us have to ensure that our future generations lead a life of peace, dignity and mutual respect. We need to sow the seeds of a conflict-free world, and in this endeavour, Buddhism and Hinduism have a great contribution.

Narendra Modi

#5. Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#6. I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?

Karen Allen

#7. Life is about learning and we all learn something from one another. Today I remember them and thank for their contribution to shape up my life.

Pankaj Gupta

#8. When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts.

Gautama Buddha

#9. Work hard with passion and courage. Life is a marathon of contribution. You really must work hard to accomplish something ... Find your passion and get good at it.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

#10. 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.

Sam Harris

#11. I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

Pete Seeger

#12. Think what a contribution selfish people of great talent could have made if their commitments had been made to Jesus Christ instead of to themselves! We will do better in every aspect of our lives if we commit to a God in whose life we see miracles, power over disease and death ...

Vaughn J. Featherstone

#13. Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.

Benjamin Zander

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

Robin S. Sharma

#15. You will be raising these kids in your mind your whole life. And they will change you. Your little contribution to it - twenty years from now, they'll be marching off into other things and that's still the legacy you leave.

Bill Ayers

#16. What, after all, is the purpose of a woman's life? The purpose of a woman's life is just the same as the purpose of a man's life: that she may make the best possible contribution to the generation in which she is living.

Louise McKinney

#17. A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.

Wendell Berry

#18. 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.

Gilberto Gil

#19. Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.

Deepak Chopra

#20. Measure your life not by its duration, but by its contribution.

Debasish Mridha

#21. Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.

Frederick Sanger

#22. There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet.

Mitchell Baker

#23. Every breath is a sacrament, an affirmation of our connection with all other living things, a renewal of our link with our ancestors and a contribution to generations yet to come. Our breath is a part of life's breath, the ocean of air that envelopes the earth.

David Suzuki

#24. I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.

Lauren Bacall

#25. Patrick Cheng's Radical Love is not only an excellent introduction to LGBT theology but an important contribution to the discipline of theology and the life of the church. It is a must read for anyone who cares about the health of the church and theology today.

James H. Cone

#26. Each of us has a purpose for living beyond our own survival and pleasure. Every individual is like a thread in a beautiful tapestry with a vital contribution to make, not only to the sustenance of life as we know it, but in the creation and development of more beneficial expressions of life.

John Templeton

#27. Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Stephen Covey

#28. It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.

John Portman

#29. The real failure is to rob this world of the contribution only you can make, and to fail to make work that truly gives you that 'this is what I was created to do' feeling that has no equal.

David DuChemin

#30. Sometimes we think we're a little too gifted to show up, yo uknow. But none of us truly is ... By avoiding risk we really risk what's most important in life
reaching toward growth, our potential, and a true contribution to a common good.

Max DePree

#31. The acquisition of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use, and that use is their contribution to a common and shared life

John Dewey

#32. It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.

Zachary Quinto

#33. It is hard to know if what you are going to do in life is up to you, or a sum of the contribution of others, plus the circumstances you are born into.

Carlos Machado

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

Robin Sharma

#35. The real contribution of Rihani consists in having given us, in both Arabic and English, what may be considered the most vivid and interesting account of common-day life as it is lived at present in the hitherto little known Arabia.

Philip Khuri Hitti

#36. The secret to a happy life is to recognize that no matter what the situation, there's a creative opportunity in it ... find meaning and purpose in your life to make a contribution.

Deepak Chopra

#37. The Copernican revolution was actually a contribution to the life of the church, the development of our view of ourselves in terms of the Universe, and therefore our view of God, et cetera. But, that took centuries, and struggles, and conflicts before that happened.

George Coyne

#38. Instead of just getting old and giving up and dying, let's learn to make a huge contribution to life.

Louise Hay

#39. 84. In life, you are measured not by longevity but by contribution and impact

Dr Lloyd Magangeni

#40. Let your heart shine even more than your face. The beautiful contents of your heart can never be forgotten, but your face will be a history.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Michael Jackson

#42. Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.

Robert M. Pirsig

#43. A job is a sacrifice. Following an interest - that's a contribution. And we're here on the planet, not to sacrifice ourselves, but to make a contribution.

Robert Holden

#44. A true friendship is a love without expectations but with fair a share of contribution.

Debasish Mridha

#45. There are days when I'll wake up and think, oh, I've really been something. You know, it won't be the same without me. And then there are days when I wake up and I say, 'Don't kid yourself. Your contribution was minimal. You changed very little. Everything you hated prospered'.

Norman Mailer

#46. I think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life.

John F. Kennedy

#47. the quality of your life will come down to the quality of your contribution.

Robin S. Sharma

#48. I believe you came into the world to accomplish something, and that the something you came to accomplish is not small or insignificant, that's not worthy of you. You came here to make a major contribution to life on this planet.

Paul Solomon

#49. I would like a child to grow up to have a happy life and make a contribution to society. I don't mean to be a big scientist or something like that. How many people can do that? I think if you live a happy life and are a good person, that is a contribution to society.

Leslie T. Chang

#50. Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.

Stephen Covey

#51. By acknowledging their contribution and letting them go with gratitude, you will be able to truly put the things you own, and your life, in order.

Marie Kondo

#52. The exultation of poverty as a spiritual virtue is of the ego, not the spirit. 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

#53. We hope to help you discover Your Self; inspire you to live more passionate and sensitive life; helping you listen to your Soul, finding your-own space in this matrix of life, making a genuine contribution to humanity.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#54. The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have no life or interest outside the job.

Peter Drucker

#55. To be in any way a positive contribution, that's all anybody wants to be. It's all I've ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you've been of use, in whatever way that comes out.

Angelina Jolie

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

Tony Robbins

#57. I'm very fatalistic about life. Whatever happens, happens. The imperative for me is that I do my contribution for my people, for my culture. I still want to make films for them. I still want to make films that confront our struggles.

Lav Diaz

#58. We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.

Caitlin Moran

#59. The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.

Aly Khan

#60. Great ambition without contribution is without significance.
The Emperor's Club

Steve William Laible

#61. It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.

David Geffen

#62. It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.

Alan Cohen

#63. Life is not measured in time, but in love, contribution, and grace.

Carly Fiorina

#64. You and I have been created with a DNA that drives us to want to live a life with good experiences, forces us to human growth and leads us to the contribution of something beyond our understanding.

Yovanny Alfonso

#65. Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it.

George Burns

#66. Here, Courtney, is your contribution to the anthology of my life.
Did you like that? The anthology of my life?
I just made it up.

Jay Asher

#67. Rebecca Eaton has made an enormous contribution to the cultural life of America, and, more than that, she is one of the most fun people I know.

Andrew Davies

#68. You have threads of life blowing around, possibly even strangling you - threads that are meant to bind together and become your unique, God-given contribution to a world in great need.

Jennie Allen

#69. Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be

Viktor E. Frankl

#70. Success is ... living a full and balanced life in partnership with others to create a joyful feeling of love, contribution, appreciation and abundance, despite how our endeavors may turn out.

Susan Jeffers

#71. One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading a full and eventful life.

Stephen Hawking

#72. It seems to me that it's every man's obligation to make what contribution he can. You live each day as best you can. That, to me, is what makes life interesting.

Rod McKuen

#73. I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable

Eva Hesse

#74. When I'm singing, I'm happy. I'm doing what I can do and this is my contribution to life.

Anita O'Day

#75. When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Andy Granatelli

#76. Whatever your financial status in life, or whatever work you do, know that you can make a significant contribution to your family and world by doing small things with great love.

Joyce Vissell

#77. You are defined not by what you have in life but by what you have given in life.

Deepak Burfiwala

#78. 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.

Marianne Williamson

#79. I hope I'll be remembered for my scientific contribution to understanding life and human life.

Craig Venter

#80. The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex ... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world. Making a small contribution to that effort is really in a sense the last significant thing that I want to do with my life.

Gustav Nossal

#81. What is it to enjoy life? Sit at the beach? No. What it is is that you have to do something, you have be productive, make a contribution to the society, to the family, to yourself.

Frank Lowy

#82. Life is not only for consumption but for contribution.

Debasish Mridha

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

Alan Cohen

#84. I don't want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I'm not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning.

Temple Grandin

#85. Nothing is more important for young people than enhancing their life chances, liberating their potential and encouraging their contribution to a globally competitive and modern economy.

David Blunkett

#86. [Chris] gave his life in exchange for knowledge and his story is his contribution to the world. I feel complete now to put this story behind me as it was on my mind for quite some time.

Krakauer Jon

#87. His father had always said, Son, the most important thing in life is to make a contribution. Who would have thought Kittridge's contribution would be video-blogging from the front lines of the apocalypse?

Justin Cronin

#88. Customer results contribute to population results. What we do for our customers is our contribution to the quality of life of the community.

Mark Friedman

#89. We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

Malcolm Fraser

#90. His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.

C. G. Jung

#91. Meaning comes from engagement in positive work that challenges our personal capacity combined with knowledge that our positive work is making a larger contribution to the overall well-being of humanity and life on the planet.

Michael Strong

#92. We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions is preparing the humanity of tomorrow; it is a tiny contribution to the construction of the huge and glorious final humanity

Jean Vanier

#93. The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.

Harold S. Kushner

#94. In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the categories of race and class as they affected the formation of African American identity. Leslie Harris has made a major contribution to our understanding of the black experience.

Eric Foner

#95. What a thrill to be able to say that you had a contribution in the life of someone - a young person, perhaps, who is trying to take a look at the possibility of their own lives and find out what they are good at and you can help steer their career.

Erik Weihenmayer

#96. If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.

James P. Gorman

#97. Some of you, unfortunately, will never marry in this life. That turns out to be the case sometimes. If that happens, do not spend your life grieving over it. The world still needs your talents. It needs your contribution.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#98. Had Ken Kesey opened Electric Kool-Aid stands on every college campus in the country, it would have made a lesser contribution than Life to the creation of that era of unprecedented foment we like to call the sixties.

Tom Robbins

#99. The world is a stage where people come to play their own part and leave, your contribution to making the world a much better place matters.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

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

David Simon