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The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. -- Marianne Williamson
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. -- Tony Robbins
My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can. -- Keith Haring
There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well. -- Walter Reuther
Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution. -- Stephen Covey
I feel that my whole life is a contribution. -- Pete Seeger
A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution. -- Angela Merkel
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it. -- Haldan Keffer Hartline
It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward. -- John Portman
I feel good about the work I do on Survivor and am proud of my contribution. -- Jeff Probst
You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life. -- Stephen Covey
I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking. -- Loretta Young
It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life. -- David Geffen
Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image. -- David Ogilvy
That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America's most important contribution to political progress on this planet. -- Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none. -- Cofer Black
But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever. -- J. Philippe Rushton
How much greater would their contributions to the U.S. economy be if U.S. copyright owners could access foreign markets otherwise dominated by pirate product? -- Howard Berman
Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous. -- Martin Fleischmann
But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture. -- Haldan Keffer Hartline
I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution. -- Alan Paton
I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented. -- Ted Nelson
I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased. -- Judy Chicago
If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else. -- Peggy Noonan
It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important. -- Gary David Goldberg
It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward. -- John Portman
Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution. -- Robin S. Sharma
You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it. -- Brad Paisley
It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness. -- Sheryl Sandberg
There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous. -- Nelson Mandela
During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind. -- Xi Jinping
That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution. -- Angela Merkel
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another. -- Richard P. Feynman
Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make. -- Mitch Daniels
What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset. -- Andrew Young
Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution. -- Marc Bolan
We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect. -- Michelle Obama
Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture. -- Sue Wicks
Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The point of the feminist movement wasn't simply to set our underwear on fire and muscle into small spaces in the male-dominated workplace, but to create a world where the contribution of both sexes was equally valued and no one's worth was judged on their take-home salary. -- Mariella Frostrup
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
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. -- Henry Louis Gates
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
Our responsibility is to rally and lead the whole party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups, take up this historic baton and continue working hard for the great renewal of the Chinese nation, so that we will stand rock firm in the family of nations and make fresh and greater contribution to mankind. -- Xi Jinping
I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution. -- Jacqueline Bisset
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My life is a contribution. -- Byron Katie
Even breathing is a contribution. -- Byron Katie
Every individual has a unique contribution. -- Jack Kornfield
I'm an actor, that's my contribution. -- Glenn Close
Women have an important contribution to make. -- Margaret Mead
Ambition without contribution is of no significance. -- Kevin Kline
Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate. -- David Packer
A good poem is a contribution to reality. -- Dylan Thomas
The greatest contribution to the Mexican table imaginable -- Rick Bayless
My contribution to film has always been negligible. -- Alec Guinness
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution. -- Robert Kennedy
Value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect. -- Michelle Obama
The understatement is the English contribution to comedy. -- Jim Davis
The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip. -- John Cleese
Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding. -- Dick Motta
You have great talent for great contribution to humanity. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution. -- Jack Kornfield
Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution. -- Peter Drucker
I think cable has been under-appreciated for its contribution to society. -- Brian Roberts
Each person entering our world brings either a contribution or destruction. -- Jim Rohn
Industrial production of meat makes a huge contribution to global warming. -- Noam Chomsky
Measure your life not by its duration, but by its contribution. -- Debasish Mridha
How can you measure the contribution that artists make to society? -- John Kurtz
Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got. -- Steven Pressfield
Music is my contribution to life. I have my heart in it. -- Michael Jackson
If someone can make a contribution to the company he feels important. -- W. Edwards Deming
Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution. -- Owen Paterson
Life is not measured in time, but in love, contribution, and grace. -- Carly Fiorina
One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns. -- Len G. Murray
The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years. -- Viktor Korchnoi
True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes. -- George Dantzig
The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself. -- Frank Herbert
The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one. -- Nicholas Negroponte
We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make. -- Oprah Winfrey
It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification. -- Walter Ulbricht
Sheik Hilaly is making a good contribution. He is making a good contribution. -- Alexander Downer
I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation. -- Howard Hughes
The cocktail party is probably America's greatest contribution to the world of entertaining. -- Martha Stewart
The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork. -- William F. Nolan
Our consciousness is our contribution to reality. What we perceive as real, becomes real. -- Deepak Chopra
Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth. -- Jeroen Dijsselbloem
If sheer strength is your only contribution to war, you will ultimately be defeated. -- Justin Weisner Starks
Vision comes alive when everyone sees where his or her contribution makes a difference. -- Ken Blanchard
I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound. -- Chelsea Clinton
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. -- William James
To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others. -- John Lubbock
A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. -- Wendell Berry
I like multi-multiplicity, multicultural, multiplication etc. Any contribution to diversification and value augmentation is achievement. -- Rossana Condoleo
I hope I'll be remembered for my scientific contribution to understanding life and human life. -- Craig Venter
Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts. -- George Osborne
In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. -- Stephen Gardiner
I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. -- David Eddings
Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Your contribution is the energy produced in the doing of something, not the end product. -- Penney Peirce
The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better. -- Boris Johnson
If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance. -- James P. Gorman
What is important, what I consider success, is that we make a contribution to our world. -- Benjamin Carson
If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history. -- Eleanor Clift
Having one less child is the biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet -- John Guillebaud
I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics. -- Daniel Kahneman
Progression is the lesson, elevation is the direction, and evolution is the solution proven through contribution. -- Capies Pitts
I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution. -- Jim Butcher
He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook] -- John Prescott
That is the great contribution of Reformed thinking to the Christian church: theology for a life well-lived. -- Oliver D. Crisp
You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made. -- Steve Vai
[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket. -- H. L. Mencken
Progression is the lesson, elevation is the direction, and evolution is the solution proven through ones contribution. -- Capies Pitts
Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation -- Paul Strand
In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution. -- Elon Musk
Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own. -- Alan Cohen

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