Top 100 Quotes About Contributing
#1. It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.
Jessye Norman
#2. Success means participating fully in the conscious evolution of humanity, contributing to the shift in time to avoid the chaos and disasters foreseen.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#3. Humans are contributing to additional carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
John Barrasso
#4. If we are serious about climbing to higher ground, we will be found in church every Sunday - attending all of our meetings, partaking of the sacrament, participating in Sunday School, and contributing to the spirit found in Relief Society, Primary, and priesthood meetings.
Robert L. Millet
#5. If it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is contributing to the needs of others, let him give generously; if it is leadership, let him govern diligently; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully. ROMANS 12:8
Anne Graham Lotz
#6. The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#7. When we feel an obligation to test the things we say and to find the boundaries within which what we say has validity, then we are contributing to a real inner consolidation of our human feeling for existence.
Rudolf Steiner
#8. The way Yes works is when we have a new member come in, as in Jon Davison, it's appropriate that we see what differences we can get out of a new contributing member in order to keep Yes interesting.
Chris Squire
#9. I just know that I wasn't happy where I was. I didn't feel complete. I didn't feel like I was contributing what I needed to contribute to not only to my, my, my fans that I had begun to gather but to myself most of all, most importantly for me.
Teddy Pendergrass
#10. To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.
Chuck Palahniuk
#11. month - the money gives the women at least a small degree of discretion in spending and the prestige that comes from contributing to the family budget.
Geraldine Brooks
#12. So in 1987 I gave up all animal products and became a vegan. Simply so that I could eat and live in accordance with my beliefs that animals have their own lives, that they're entitled to their own lives and that contributing to animal suffering is something that I don't want to be a part of.
Moby
#13. Dominant energy patterns that are contributing to the stress in a human being, are able to be picked up, if a person is open enough. And for me, as a medical intuitive, that's where I focus my attention. That's what the skill is all about.
Caroline Myss
#14. We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget.
Cliff Stearns
#15. The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.
Jean De La Bruyere
#16. Believe me, I have no please in the world superior to that of contributing to yours. No, I can safely say, I have no pleasure so complete, so unalloyed. It is without a drawback.
Jane Austen
#17. During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning.
Ayelet Waldman
#18. Already we're seeing graduates of U.S. higher education going back to their home countries and contributing to societies there, where in the past they would have stayed in the U.S. and built new companies here. We have to have immigration reform that allows talented foreigners to become Americans.
David Malpass
#19. Many of the people who we think of as lone geniuses were actually part of a whole scene of people who were supporting each other, looking at each other's work, copying from each other, stealing ideas, and contributing ideas.
Austin Kleon
#20. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee.
Stephen R. Covey
#21. To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#22. I needed to become a fully functional, contributing member of my life
Vicki Wilson
#23. For the team to be successful, we've got to set team goals. I go out every game and make sure that I'm contributing, whether that's defensively or offensively.
Phil Hill
#24. The expenses of government, having for their object the interests of all, should be borne by every one, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honoured in contributing to these expenses.
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
#25. Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
Dave Barry
#26. His Majesty has done absolutely nothing but waste his time darling around eating sweets, contributing to the boy's adolescent chubiness, and to the sense of the country's political drift. Rather than being encouraged to govern, the Shah's courtiers preferred to encourage him in his idleness.
Charles Emmerson
#27. A French Republican is a Republican who beats up on conservatives and is constantly praising the Democrats and contributing to the massive spending in this country while they go home and pretend otherwise.
Mark Levin
#28. People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it - otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.
Greg Graffin
#29. India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.
Joschka Fischer
#30. Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations
J. William Fulbright
#31. When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
#32. If it isn't contributing to getting you where you want to be a year from today, then don't put it on this short list (of goals to focus on).
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
#33. Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand.
Amy Jo Martin
#34. I feel like there is just as much violent programming in other countries and there is not the same incidence of factors. I think there are other factors contributing to violence in this country and not the media.
Sara Gilbert
#35. Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
#36. The private sector must play a role in ensuring the prosperity and health of the people who comprise its market. It is time for the private sector to become a proactive partner contributing to the efforts of governments and philanthropies.
Simon Mainwaring
#37. I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.
Jim Capaldi
#38. The United States is contributing massively to the defence of Europe and we should be very grateful.
Margaret Thatcher
#39. The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.
Feist
#40. Two ideas militate against our consciously contributing to a better world. The idea that we can do everything or the conclusion that we can do nothing to make this globe a better place to live are both temptations of the most insidious form. One leads to arrogance; the other to despair.
Joan D. Chittister
#41. One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
A. B. Yehoshua
#42. We can't conclusively say whether man-made carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to climate change.
Tony Abbott
#43. I think everyone goes through chapters in their life and there was a time when I wasn't feeling terribly positive about what I was contributing to film, or wasn't feeling as if I was going in the direction I wanted and I re-evaluated what I was doing.
Jude Law
#44. If you have a sense that your money is somehow, even indirectly, contributing to a cause that you find morally problematic, then it seems somewhere between reasonable and obligatory for you to vote with your dollars.
Blake Mycoskie
#45. There is no such thing as a soldier. I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain and in the senses of one man, and I cannot see any man's death as a contributing factor in the success or failure of a military campaign.
William, Saroyan
#46. My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
Larry Page
#47. Dedicate (donate, give all) your life to something larger than yourself and pleasure - to the largest thing you can: to God, to relieving suffering, to contributing to knowledge, to adding to literature, or something else. Happiness lies this way, and it beats pleasure hollow.
Annie Dillard
#48. The pursuit of material-external things as if they can provide deep and lasting happiness is contributing to a dwindling of real meaning and is a factor contributing to an increase in mental health problems. It just isn't possible to fill the hole inside us by piling up the things outside us. pg9
Dr Stephen McKenzie And Dr Craig Hassed
#49. I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.
Ed Belfour
#50. I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: How can I get in on that?
Dave Barry
#51. New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand.
Helen Clark
#52. While art should never become exclusionary and elitist, any culture which fails to support its artists is only contributing to its own impoverishment. (Beyond Religion, p. 122)
David N. Elkins
#53. When you combine the men and women deployed from our military installations with activated reservists and members of the National Guard, Georgia is contributing more personnel to the theatre than any other State in our Union.
Sonny Perdue
#54. To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#55. As a director, I love being able to really be a contributing factor to the overall vision of a project.
Kim Fields
#56. Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.
Buzz Aldrin
#57. There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
Ted Koppel
#58. There's no doubt in my mind that going vegetarian has made me feel better not only physically but also because I learned about the suffering of animals who are raised and killed for food. I feel good knowing I'm not contributing to that.
Sophie Monk
#59. Ignorant intervention is absolutely a contributing factor to cycles of oppression. This
Jen Hatmaker
#60. Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.
Grenville Kleiser
#61. I've learned that you can call it a band, but unless everyone is contributing, it's not, really. It's pretending that it's a band.
Jimmy Chamberlin
#62. I'm encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.
Muhammad Yunus
#63. There
is not a person alive who is not capable of greatly contributing to the
well - being of this planet. Just changing your attitude can affect the
world around you.
Susan Jeffers
#64. Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common pot but not contributing to it. Just to insure that shirkers get what they deserve, we are prepared to make ourselves poorer.
James Surowiecki
#65. I hated my part in the charade of murder and horror. My efforts were contributing to the deaths, to the burning alive of children - especially the children. The photographs of young Vietnamese children burned by napalm destroyed me.
Ralph McGehee
#66. I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on the world mattered. That's part of the Jewish tradition.
Eve Ensler
#67. Jamie Dimon and J.P. Morgan are contributing millions to the Remain campaign because they do very nicely, thank you, out of the E.U.
Michael Gove
#68. I never think about my own stats, as long as I'm contributing to the team.
Derek Jeter
#69. I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.
Lamar Alexander
#70. But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.
Dabney Coleman
#71. I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things.
Jonathan Shapiro
#72. For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start.
George Stevens
#73. I've always wanted to skate. If and when I decide to retire ... I want to perform. I want to be on the ice. I want to continue contributing to the sport. I feel like I still have a lot to offer.
Jeremy Abbott
#74. The only time I drink milk is when I drink coffee. I make love the same way - contributing 2% as I just sort of lay there.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#75. The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril. Globalization, for example, has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty while contributing to social fragmentation and a massive increase in inequality, not to mention serious environmental damage.
Klaus Schwab
#76. 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
#77. You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
Tom Ford
#78. The cost of failure is really high when you're contributing as yourself,
Christopher Poole
#79. Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.
Stephanie Cutter
#80. The first contributing factor to a happy home is the sublime virtue of loyalty, one of the noblest attributes of the human soul.
David O. McKay
#81. Corporate welfare, I think, is a disaster for this country. It's crippling our economy. It is contributing to a permanent underclass and corrupting the business community.
Charles Koch
#82. No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.
Alistair Cooke
#83. I wanted to be a part of something special and contributing to the launch of a new league was very exciting to me.
Rickey Henderson
#84. The news reflects the reality you're contributing to become manifested.
Robin Sacredfire
#85. Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.
Thomas Jefferson
#86. I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.
Lisa Marie Presley
#87. the health of the church is directly tied to the health of groups in the church. If you are not in a small group, a Sunday school class, or some other type of group, you are not contributing to the health of the church.
Thom S. Rainer
#88. Perhaps we are like cells in the mind of God, contributing to celestial functions beyond our ken, just as our cells unknowingly fashion our thoughts and actions. Perhaps the laws of nature order and constrain even the living and eternal Deity from which they spring, and of which they are a part.
Robert Christian
#89. With a giant battery, we'd be able to address the problem of intermittency that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid in the same way that coal and gas and nuclear do today.
Donald Sadoway
#90. While teachers often complain that their students seem to do very little thinking, teachers who simply follow the manual should understand that they are actually contributing to the problem. Students seldom learn to think under the tutelage of teachers who do not think either.
Donovan L. Graham
#91. In order to have a literature, a nation must live, not merely on the practical, but on the moral and spiritual plane as well, contributing through its national life to the development of some side of the universal spirit of man.
Vissarion Belinsky
#92. I was far too nervous to be concerned about contributing to the conversations.
S.A. Tawks
#93. The perspective of Love doesn't leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness . The end of separation is the salvation for all.
Adyashanti
#95. The generosity of the super-rich is sometimes proffered as evidence they're contributing as much to the nation's well-being as they did decades ago when they paid a much larger share of their earnings in taxes.
Robert Reich
#96. Slavery was endemic in the classical world and huge numbers of men, women and children, the captives of Rome's ceaseless wars, flooded into Italy. Slaves provided a cheap workforce, contributing significantly to unemployment among free-born citizens.
Anthony Everitt
#97. Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement.
Debbie Stabenow
#98. We unplug ourselves from the grid by recognizing that we will never cure our restlessness by contributing our disposable income to the bottom line of Bullshit, Inc., but only by doing our work.
Steven Pressfield
#99. Believe me, I have no pleasure in the world superior to that of contributing to yours. No,
Jane Austen
#100. Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.
Thomas Sowell
