Contribution Quotes

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. (Douglas MacArthur)
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. View quote
Marianne Williamson
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution. View quote
Daniel Dennett
I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that. View quote
Halle Berry
Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south. View quote
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. View quote
Fernand Braudel
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. View quote
Temple Grandin
I feel that my whole life is a contribution. View quote
Pete Seeger
There is no greater calling than to serve your brother. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well. View quote
Walter Reuther
My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general. (David Lee Roth)
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. View quote
Keith Haring
But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great. View quote
Andy Hertzfeld
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. View quote
Ken Burns
I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development. View quote
Li Peng
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. View quote
Sue Wicks
Karl Marx made a great contribution to the liberation cause of mankind, and because of his immortal exploits his name is still enshrined in the hearts of the working class and peoples of all countries. View quote
Kim Jong-il
In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the social sciences and a solution of the problem of complete avoidance of war. View quote
Edward Condon
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. View quote
Xi Jinping
It was the greatest contribution towards the whole of human race, made by China, is to prevent its 1.3 billion people from hunger. View quote
Xi Jinping
We - mankind - stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device - our consciousness of the crisis - as our unique contribution. (Margaret Mead)
Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries. View quote
Julian Schwinger
If one had to single out the most revolutionary novelty furnished by Qumran, its contribution to our understanding of the genesis of Jewish literary compositions could justifiably be our primary choice. View quote
Geza Vermes
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
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. View quote
Gilberto Gil