Contribution Quotes

"of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future."

- F. Sionil Jose

"Help the life of one person and you can help the community."

- Steven Sawalich

"A life isn't significant except for its impact on others lives."

- Jackie Robinson

"Even if you just change one life, you’ve changed the world forever."

- Mike Satterfield

"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."

- Thomas Carlyle

"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do."

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"The role of United Nations is to create more smiling face and to fulfill the dreams of the innocent children of the world."

- Amit Ray

"Freedom of navigation, as ensured by the Navy, is critical to America's ability to project power by moving men and equipment over 70 percent of the earth's surface and to maintaining world trade and commerce."

- Robert C. O'Brien

"Occupational therapy is the only profession that helps people across the lifespan to do the things they want and need to do through the therapeutic use of daily activities (occupations). Occupational therapy practitioners enable people of all ages to live life to its fullest by helping them promote health, and prevent—or live better with—injury, illness, or disability."

- American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)

"As pediatric occupational therapists, you are supporting mental health."

- Tiffany Northrop, OTR/L

"One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others."

- Lewis Carroll

"As you graduate, as you deal with your excitement and your doubts today, I urge you to try and create the world you want to live in. Minister to the world in a way that can change it. Minister radically in a real, active, practical, get your hands dirty way."

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"Sometimes the problem feels so big that changing one life doesn’t feel like enough. But it is."

- America Ferrera

"Building your community is how you change the world."

- LeBron James

"When you put something beautiful out into the world it's no longer yours."

- Bandit

"I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on the world mattered. That’s part of the Jewish tradition."

- Eve Ensler

"It takes a planet to explore the universe."

- Dylan Taylor

"The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world."

- Charles Dudley Warner

"Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going without me."

- Terry Fox

"The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation."

- Walter Cronkite

"I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it."

- Abraham Lincoln

"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Friday is a new opportunity to make a difference."

"Wishing a spectacular 75th birthday to a person whose legacy is a symphony of love, kindness, and lasting impact. May this milestone year be a celebration of the beautiful soul you are and the countless lives you’ve touched."

"Medicine adds days to lives, occupational therapy adds life to days."

- Unknown

"Be the reason someone smiles today"

"Be somebody who makes everyone feel like a somebody"

"Be the light that helps others see"

"You were born, and the world became a better place."