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.
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.
Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.
Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.
I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.
There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
I am always touched when friends make contributions to my foundation on my behalf.
Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that.
If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.
I try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it.
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.
Our consciousness is our contribution to reality. What we perceive as real, becomes real.
My contribution to film has always been negligible.
A good poem is a contribution to reality.
A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts.
Every individual has a unique contribution.
Women offer unique contributions to making and keeping peace - and that those contributions lead to better outcomes not just for women, but for entire societies.
Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.
I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation.
The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.
I'm an actor, that's my contribution.
The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.
I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.
Life is not measured in time, but in love, contribution, and grace.
Send me money, send me green, and Heaven you will meet. Make your contribution and you'll get a better seat.
I think we're intrinsically spiritual. We're spiritual beings in a physical universe and we are here to make a spiritual contribution.
I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.
The game itself is an autonomous game, but everybody is a part of it. No contribution is too small.
All this money washing around Washington and all of these contributions taint all of us.
To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.
Ambition without contribution is of no significance.
The greatest contribution to the Mexican table imaginable
Integration is a word of the past, the word of the future and the word of the present is contribution.
Our most important legacy will be the contributions we make to the lives of other human beings.
A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.
Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness.
We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make.
The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.
Women have an important contribution to make.
Value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.
Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution.
You weren't created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution.
Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.