Contributing Quotes

• When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Quoted in Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone (1972)

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• You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Motivational, Leadership, Lds

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Way to Be!: 9 Rules For Living the Good Life”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Motivational, Humorous

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• Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.

  A. G. Gaston

  Inspirational, Life, Money

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• By unlinking your money motivation from anger, fear, and the need to prove yourself, you can install new links for earning your money through purpose, contribution, and joy.

  T. Harv Eker

  Motivational, Money, Fear

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Jan 28, 2014

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• Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?

  Adam Grant

  Appreciation, Time, Worry

  Adam Grant (2013). “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success”, p.12, Penguin

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• We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope.

  Merle Haggard

  Life, Music, Hope

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• It's important to know how to lead and manage a classroom with flexibility. Students of all ages are quite capable of learning these routines and contributing to their success once the teacher is comfortable guiding students in that direction.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Age, Important

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• The act of contributing to the lives of others is its own reward. A servant's heart is a greater motivator than financial gain.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Motivation, Heart, Rewards

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• The diagnosis of homosexuality as a "disorder" is a contributing factor to the pathology of those homosexuals who do become mentally ill.... Nothing is more likely to make you sick than being constantly told that you are sick.

  Ronald Goldman

  Pride, Gay, Sick

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• What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Parent, World, Wealth

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• The real conflict in the abortion issue is between a value - the right to choose whether or not to have the child - and a moral dictum - don't kill other humans. The more here, even, is flexible and relative. "Thou shall not kill" really means, "don't kill productive, contributing members of your own society that aren't a threat to your safety." If it was not relative, then no "Judeo-Christian" person could ever go to war or execute someone.

  Morris Sullivan

  Christian, Children, Real

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• I think it's so dope that I'm here in Chicago and contributing to the music scene that's thriving. People are so happy Chicago's shining that everyone is willing to say 'I represent Chicago.' That wasn't always the case.

  Chance the Rapper

  Dope, Thinking, People

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• Consider that worrying excessively about another person, especially a loved one, is a destructive act. It causes you emotional distress which prevents you from being at your best and contributing at the levels you're capable of. Instead of worrying, focus on accepting what is out of your control, and actively changing all that you can.

  Hal Elrod

  Gratitude, Emotional, Worry

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Oct 16, 2012

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• Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Artist, Way, Building

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• I think one of the finest gifts I can give my friends in the holiday season is to pause with a long enough quality to actually SEE them. My calm, unhurried presence communicates this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you. I remember our times of together and am contributing right now to another quality memory. I value you and honor and take the time, right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Christmas, Memories, Holiday

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• All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.

  Eisaku Sato

  War, Years, People

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• Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.

  John L. Lewis

  Goal, Democracy, Economy

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I can to the bass end.

  Tony Levin

  Artist, Love Is, Bass

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• Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.

  Henry Fielding

  Art, Attitude, Dresses

  Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1816). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.196

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• You're creating music to pull people into a world, whether it be a visual medium where music is just one element, or a purely musical medium. Either way, you're trying to transport people and to create a connection. I've always felt that the best films and the best albums can be the best company. If people feel a little bit less alone because of something I had a hand in creating than I feel like I'm contributing to the world in a positive way.

  Andrew Hollander

  Hands, Creating, People

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• If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.

  Ethan Hawke

  Unhappy, Causes, Literature

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 12, 2012.

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• A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of much of the excess food that is currently contributing to leachate and methane formation in landfills.

  Carol Browner

  Animal, People, Environmental

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• Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Ocean, Self, Views

  Paul Feyerabend (1975). “Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge”, Verso

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• The message to organizations is this: You have to increase the number of categories of contributing, or the types of career paths, which people can experience as successful. You cannot restrict esteem to the fewer and fewer who will be climbing up the management ladder. You need to have the majority of your people feeling like winners.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Successful, Climbing, Careers

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