Contribution Quotes

""Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.""

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

"They say it takes a village to raise a child. That may be the case, but the truth is that it takes a lot of solid, stable marriages to create a village."

- Diane Sollee

"The greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love."

- Eucharista Ward

"The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes."

- Amy Grant

"Creative work is a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got."

- Steven Pressfield

"Being a bit famous now gives me the opportunity to help people who really need it, especially children."

- Lionel Messi

"Children are not a distraction from more important work, they are the most important work."

- C.S. Lewis

"We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world."

- Woodrow Wilson

"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."

- Sarah Bernhardt

"Benjamin Franklin was a humanitarian that dedicated his life to making contributions to all humans. He had a clear purpose for himself: improve the human race."

- Paulo Braga

""The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son.""

- Sarah Shahi

"The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred."

- Kano Jigoro

""Imagine if every child learned the respect, courtesy and discipline martial arts teaches.""

- Chris Whamond

"I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help. We can all help."

- Cristiano Ronaldo

"If we are to achieve a richer culture, we must weave one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place."

- Margaret Meade

"I have no fear of constitutional amendments properly adopted, but I do fear the rewriting of the Constitution by judges under the guise of interpretation."

- Hugo L. Black

"Better use has been made of association and this powerful instrument of action has been applied for more varied aims in America than anywhere else in the world."

- Alexis de Tocqueville

"Individualities may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Play, while it cannot change the external realities of children’s lives, can be a vehicle for children to explore and enjoy their differences and similarities and to create, even for a brief time, a more just world where everyone is an equal and valued participant."

- Patricia G. Ramsey

"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."

- George Eliot

"At the end of the day, at the end of the week, at the end of my life, I want to say that I contributed more than I criticized."

- Brené Brown

"Your presence alone is a blessing to someone. Don’t forget that, even when you feel small"

- Unknown

"The world is a better place because you are in it."

"Happy 50th Birthday! Here's to a half-century of making the world a brighter place."

""Success is not just about making money; it’s about making a difference.""

- Unknown

"The world needs you"

"Happy 40th to someone who makes life better for everyone around them. Enjoy your special day!"

"Here’s to celebrating four decades of an incredible life. You make the world a better place. Happy 40th birthday!"

"At 40, you have helped shape so many other lives for the better. Happy birthday to a wonderful person inside and out."

"You've blessed so many lives with your forty years. Here's to many more years ahead of you."