Contributions Quotes

I must admit that I personally measure success
in terms of the contributions
an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
- Margaret Mead

Related topics: Service

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

What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles

A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The practice of forgiveness is our most important
contribution to the healing of the world.
- Marianne Williamson

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Whatever you do or don't do in your lifetime,
your best contribution to those around you
and to future generations
will be in the happiness and joy
you generated and radiated to those around you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's not in the DOing, it's in the BEing.
Whatever you do or don't do in your lifetime,
your greatest contribution
to current and future generations
will be the happiness and joy
you generated and radiated to those around you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu

The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha

Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson

If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer

There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie

Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz

Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus

Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts

Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler

Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson

Could you risk believing that everything
will unfold just fine if you completely let go
of all concern about everything else,
and simply are here, now - if only for a moment?
- Dmitri Bilgere

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi

Commitment cannot be taught;
it can only be caught.
I refer to the crusading spirit.
Without the crusading spirit,
you may have the starting power
but not the staying power.
- Jimmy Yen

Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau

It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous

We can't control the impressions others form about us,
and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus

Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus

To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie