Howard Hughes
Aviator, Businessman
"I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation."
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Contribution
63 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Politician, Activist
"Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution."
Stephen Covey
Author, Speaker
"Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution."
Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist, Neurologist
"Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be"
Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution."
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"The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself."
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"Value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect."
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"A good poem is a contribution to reality."
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"Instead of just getting old and giving up and dying, let's learn to make a huge contribution to life."
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"My life is a contribution."
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"Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world."
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"We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make."
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"You weren't created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution."
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"The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts."
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"Our consciousness is our contribution to reality. What we perceive as real, becomes real."
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"The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do."
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"There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous."
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"Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it."
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"Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness."
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"We are working as hard as we can; we are preparing ourselves as carefully as we can; we fully intend to make our contribution to the world in the coming century."
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"I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur."
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"Even breathing is a contribution."
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"A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others."
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"Industrial production of meat makes a huge contribution to global warming."
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"The understatement is the English contribution to comedy."
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