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“It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.”
Anthony Robbins
“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“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
“It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.”
William Pollard
“Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.”
Winston Churchill
“Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress”
Wilfred Peterson
“If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality”
Walter Gropius
“I'm very, very pleased to contribute in some form or another,”
Robert Plant
“The nation has lost a committed civil and human rights activist whose life and contributions have made a significant difference.”
Coretta Scott King
“[An example: People want to be remembered for great things, such as contributing to humanity, he says. Not him.] I saw a young boy eating an ice cream cone, ... I smashed it in his face. You know that kid is going to remember me when he's 50.”
Dane Cook