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• Contribution: The part played by a person or thing in bringing about a result or helping something to advance.  Oxford Dictionary
• Contribution: Something that you contribute or do to help produce or achieve something together with other people, or to help make something successful.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Making a difference,  Leaving a legacy,  Improvement,  Meaning,  Purpose,  Helpfulness

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• The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live. Ethel Percy Andrus
• There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well. Walter Reuther
• Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution. Deepak Chopra
• Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell. Benjamin Zander
• Principles are universal —that is, they transcend culture and geography. They’re also timeless, they never change—principles such as fairness, kindness, respect, honesty, integrity, service, contribution. Stephen Covey

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Contribution creates meaning in life

• Meaning is in contribution, in living for something higher than self. Stephen Covey
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Contribution creates fulfilment and happiness

• Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfilment. Tony Robbins
• A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others. Hans Selye
• The desire to have, to acquire and possess, is in principle insatiable, and rarely generates the sense of fulfilment and happiness it promises. By contrast, only the desire to contribute, or to give can reliably, when acted on, yield the true sense of satisfaction we all deeply need. The conclusion I draw from this is that each of us should be guided in our goal setting by the simple question: “How can I best make my contribution to the world?” In our own priorities, doing should always precede having. Only then will we have what we most truly need. Tom Morris
• You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution. Robert F. Kennedy
• Fulfilment,  Happiness

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Contribution creates health and well-being

• The researchers found that if any of the three extrinsic aspirations—for money, fame, or beauty—was very high for an individual relative to the three intrinsic aspirations, the individual was also more likely to display poorer mental health. In contrast, strong aspirations for any of the intrinsic goals—meaningful relationships, personal growth, and community contributions—were positively associated with well-being. Edward Deci
• Health,  Well-being

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Contribution leads to greatness

• Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution. Stephen Covey
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Contribution is what real success is all about

• I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. Margaret Mead
• Success is living a full and balanced life in partnership with others to create a joyful feeling of love, contribution, appreciation and abundance, despite how our endeavours may turn out. Susan Jeffers
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Contribution is life’s greatest reward

• It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life’s greatest reward. John Portman

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Your contribution is your legacy to the world

• 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. Walter Gropius
• Legacy is not what’s left tomorrow when you’re gone. It’s what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you’re here that then happens to live on. Rasheed Ogunlaru
• Do something that the world would care about for years after you have passed on. Lorrin L. Lee
• The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy. Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
• What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. Pericles
• There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfilment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase ‘to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy’… The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.  Stephen Covey
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Declare yourself to be a contribution

• Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself. Frank Crane
• Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got. Steven Pressfield
• Declare yourself to be a contribution. Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why. Roz & Ben Zander
• Be a fountain, not a drain. Rex Hudler
• Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. Henry David Thoreau
• It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it. Morris Graves

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Create a vision of how you want to contribute

• The sooner you have a clear vision of what you want to be and the contributions you want to make, the more effective you’ll be in your life. Stephen Covey
• The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focuses on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based. Stephen Covey
• How can I best make my contribution to the world? Tom Morris
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Contribute through your work …

• By and large, the best way to be sure you’re doing something useful is that somebody’s willing to pay you to do it. If you’re a doctor, an architect, or a circus clown, your compensation is probably a pretty good measure of your social contribution. Steven Landsburg
• Work is my prayer and my love made manifest. Every human being who’s ever lived has a hardwired need to be part of something meaningful, to be part of something that’s bigger than this ordinary existence, to contribute some kind of value to the world, to feel like life has meaning and purpose. That’s true for you, too, whether you know it or not. James Arthur Ray
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… or your business

• I have nothing but respect and admiration for honest businessmen. Their contributions to our American society are indispensable and almost completely unsung. The entrepreneur who risks everything he has in order to realize a dream – and improve our lives in the process – is engaged in a worthy and honourable pursuit that earns him precious little respect in our society. Ron Paul

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Contribute through growing and investing in yourself

• To fail to live up to this challenge, my spiritual teacher used to say, is simply being irresponsible. This is not asking for perfection but merely expecting us to do our best to grow. If we do not do this much, we are depriving life of a contribution that only we can make. Eknath Easwaran
• This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life— investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute. Stephen Covey

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Contribute through following your passion

• If you have a passion, then you have something to contribute. It’s not about asking, What should I do? It’s about asking, “What is my passion?” Catherine Muther
• Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.  Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.  Howard Thurman
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Contribute through developing and using your strengths and talents

• If you can find a way to use your signature strengths at work often, and also see your work as contributing to the greater good, you have a calling. A calling is a passionate commitment to work for its own sake. Martin Seligman
• Finding the centre of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. Rollo May
• How can you use your strengths to serve others and make a contribution to the world?
• Everybody has a strength to share. If we can tap into that – if people can find ways to contribute whatever their particular unique talent or gift is, then, that really can change the world. Bill Shore
• If you can find a way to use your signature strengths at work often, and also see your work as contributing to the greater good, you have a calling. A calling is a passionate commitment to work for its own sake. Martin Seligman
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Contribute through finding and following your purpose

• There is a higher purpose to your life, a special contribution you came to make. Part of your reason for coming to earth is to evolve yourself as well as to serve humanity in some way. We will call the process of evolving yourself your life purpose, and the service you came to offer humanity your life’s work. They are intertwined, because as you serve others you will naturally evolve yourself. As you evolve and radiate more light, you automatically serve others. Everything you do to evolve yourself and carry out your life’s work is an act of aligning with the Higher Will and your Higher Self. Sanaya Roman
• There is something deep within you that knows what you are here to do and the direction you must move in to find your authentic work. To follow this path is to be an authentic leader. It is your birthright. You were born with unique gifts and with a sense of excitement about contributing to the world. Eric Klein
• Something clicks inside of us and we realise we are contributing something. Suddenly we realise that our life really matters and we have found a life path that will feed more than just the brain and ego; it will feed our heart and our soul. An influx of energy bursts through us, and we enjoy a sense of satisfaction, spiritual accomplishment and self- esteem. These feelings gather together to create a kind of magical synchronicity. We begin going with that flow rather than paddling up stream. We begin to flow with an unseen force. Jamie Sams
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Contribute through loving

• Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way. Bernie Siegel
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Contribute through your relationships

• Relationship works best when you think of it as a vehicle of giving and contributing and as a secular spiritual practice, keeping your own interests present but not predominant in your choice processes. Paul Richards
• Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there. Judith Viorst
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Contribute through creativity

• Creativity is an attitude that transcends paradigms and beliefs. It’s a soul level yearning to fulfil a purpose, uniquely contribute and leave a mark. Janice Francisco
• Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you got. Steven Pressfield
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Use your spirituality to power your contributions

• The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting and meditating, although meditation is certainly valuable. But from meditation, from the resulting consciousness, I would like to see people in action creating the world they want to live in. Marshall Rosenberg
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• Both optimists and pessimists contribute to the society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. George Bernard Shaw
• Always remember the distinction between contribution and commitment. Take the matter of bacon and eggs. The chicken makes a contribution. The pig makes a commitment. John Mack Carter
• Let’s be frank the Italians’ technological contribution to humankind stopped with the pizza oven. Bill Bryson
• You leave white people alone in constant isolation for thousands of years you know what their musical contribution is going to be? Greg Proops

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