Contributing Quotes

“If you live life on your own terms it shouldn’t feel like a jail cell.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“If someone is not spiritually present during a time when you need their help, then how will their physical presence make a difference?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The more we lie to ourselves about how we are contributing to our problems, the more harm we will cause to ourselves and our relationships because we will blame others for undesirable aspects of our lives instead of taking responsibility for our role.”
― Cortney S. Warren, Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception

“A growing body of evidence suggests that the single greatest driver of both achievement and well-being is understanding how your daily efforts enhance the life of others…the defining of a meaningful life are ‘connecting and contributing to something beyond the self'.”
― Tom Rath, Life's Great Question: Discover How You Contribute To The World

“Stop complaining, start contributing; stop crying, start smiling; and stop criticizing, start praising.”
― Vishwas Chavan

“If I am not a servant to others, by process of elimination I am then a servant to myself. And that serves no one.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We all have an opportunity and responsibility to create a legacy. A legacy which is resilient, sustainable and authentic." - Jim Cookson, Doctoral Student, Ashridge Business School, UK, August 2014”
― Jim Cookson

“Life is not about living; life is about contributing.”
― Debasish Mridha

“I cannot tell you that I am owed anything. But I can tell you that I owe everything.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We can get caught up in living a life of doing good. Doing good without doing well, is not doing good for long.”
― Suzanne F. Stevens, Make your contribution count for you, me , we: An evolutionary journey inspired by the wisdom of pioneering African women

“The people sitting in any stadium might be ‘at’ the game, but very few of them are actually ‘in’ the game. And we might remember that life is one big stadium.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“But we do have something we never had before: we have the added pressure of time. We can no longer wait around for the ideal opportunity. If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, then we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer. There is clearly much left to be done, and whatever else we are going to do, we had better get on with it.”
― Jimmy Carter, Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life