#Contribution Quotes

“Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us country folk, and we do not think any good will come of it. We have not dollars; merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn; poets will sing; women will sew; laborers will lend a hand; the children will bring flowers.”

“If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent, or deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still. Whose is so? Not mine; not thine; not his. But I think we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit? and we must not cease to tend to the correction of these flagrant wrongs, by laying one stone aright every day.”

“A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.”

“The only way to reach the mountain peaks of life is to forget about self and help other people reach greater heights.”

“The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.”

“Give the world your best and you will get the best out of the world.”

“We get to make a living; we give to make a life.”

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

“All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.”

“You measure success by how much good you do for others.”

“Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.”

“We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.”

“I'm sixty-eight years old. What I do now will be read by unborn generations for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years. For me, it's not about my work - that is, it's not about Wayne Dyer's work, how much money I make, how well I do, or how well my products do.”

“You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand”

“Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.”

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”

“The one thing you can do for others is the manage your own life. And do it with conviction.”

“The secret to a fulfilled life is not only to do well but also to do good.”

“Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.”

“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

“To spend life for something which outlasts it.”

“Most of the significant contributions that have been made to society have been made by people who were tired.”

“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now should be grateful for the person who planted and tended that tree. That includes all those benefactors of humanity throughout history that created, invented, financed, produced, maintained and improved all that we enjoy today.”

“The secret to living is giving.”

“I remember reading about the astounding number of people in this country who die within three years of retiring, which proves to me that if you lose the sense that you are producing or contributing in some way, you literally lose the will to live, and that if you do have a reason to hang on, you will.”

“There is always a place in the world for those who are willing to give of their time, energy, capital, creativity, and commitment.”

“We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.”

“If I got any good ideas out of that or I think they're good ideas, I'll be glad to contribute them but the system will probably overdo some other things.”

“'Why me?' rarely produces a positive result, while 'How can I use this?' usually leads us in the direction of turning our difficulties into a driving force to make ourselves and the world better.”

“Reading put perspective to any challenge I was facing and made me see that extraordinary people usually had extraordinary pain, difficulties or injustices. That's part of why they have the drive and hunger to do good in the world, to make something happen.”

“I got addicted to lighting people up, just seeing people so happy 'cause they rediscovered what they're capable of and so that became my life's work.”

“The secret to wealth is simple: Find a way to do more for others than anyone else does. Become more valuable. Do more. Give more. Be more. Serve more. And you will have the opportunity to earn more”

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

“The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.”

“If you Don't have Love, Harmony & Peace within you, then you Can't Contribute these Qualities”

“Give something back by becoming more”

“Power moves with you when you have an intent to serve more than yourself.”

“We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.”

“Ultimately, no man or woman is happy unless they have found a way to contribute beyond themselves.”

“I'm going to make my life everyday about being a blessing in people's lives. If I'm a blessing to people's lives, then there will be nothing to worry about again.”

“Success does not mean taking, it means truly growing and giving”

“Everything in life and business, you only earn more if you become more valuable. Because if you can do more for people than anybody else does, you can prosper. But you can't do that unless you're constantly educating yourself with the cutting edge. My whole life, even when I had no money, I would invest in education.”

“Grace is that thing that shows up to guide you when you've done the first two steps and you're intent on doing something larger than just yourself. That's when all of the sudden things are great.”

“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.”

“I think about what's the best way to serve people. In business, if you do more for others than anybody else does, you dominate. That's the bottom line.”

“Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.”

“In the end, money should serve something greater than just money. It should serve you, your family, the people you want to touch.”

“I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and would never have to worry.”

“I'm on a mission to help people grow and give. The more they grow the more they can give, the more life they build, the greater the quality of their life.”

“Find someone worse off than you and help them. It will put your life in perspective.”