Quotes of Contribution - somelinesforyou

“ In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20%. ”

- George Canning

“ Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself. ”

- Frank Crane

“ To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God. ”

- Harold Ross

“ The architect Built his great heart into these sculptured stones, And with him toiled his children, and their lives Were builded, with his own, into the walls, As offerings unto God. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. ”

- Bible

“ They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. ”

- Bible

“ The new authorities have expressed willingness for us to continue our support. We are offering this support especially for security. ”

- Robert Mugabe

“ Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. ”

- Leonard Cohen

“ The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos. ”

- Ben Hecht

“ I've been doing this a long time and people have made donations and they've been very kind, but no one has ever given our Angel Network $1 million. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

“ The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it. ”

- Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

“ Habits… the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way — by finding that it is a means of satisfaction. ”

- Juliene Berk

“ This wide and generous spirit of love, not the religious egotist's longing to get away from the world to God, is the fruit of true self-oblation; for a soul totally possessed by God is a soul totally possessed by Charity. By the path of self-offering, the Church and the soul have come up to the frontiers of the Holy… ”

- Evelyn Underhill

“ Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687 The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy. The clergy should live solely on the free-will offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling. ”

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“ Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; / Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. ”

- Bible

“ Whether it's raising donations for favorite causes or recording a first album, the incredible advancements in technology and the Windows platform offer individuals greater opportunities to follow their passions. ”

- Bill Gates

“ And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, / Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls; / From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies. ”

- Bible

“ Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein. ”

- Guindon cartoon caption

“ The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Focus on the contribution that you can make. ”

- Peter Drucker

“ I have never seen a person sacrifice to make a contribution. People contribute only that portion of their income which will not in any way infringe upon their standard of living. ”

- James W. Frick

“ I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to his or her fellow human beings. ”

- Margaret Mead

“ 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. ”

- Peggy Noonan

“ If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions. ”

- Hans Selye

“ 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

“ Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate. ”

- David Packard
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