Meaningful Contribution Quotes

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

That's the happiest I am, when I'm doing great work.

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

Self-development is the only thing that keeps a person from burning out. We all have many needs - the need for certainty, the need for variety, the need for significance, and the need for connection. But, ultimately, we must grow, and we must contribute in a meaningful way in order to feel fulfilled.

I think my whole living in vain involves me. I know that the biggest help for me is to help someone else in so many different ways.

I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner.

A job is how you make money. A career is how you make your mark. A calling is how you acknowledge a higher vision, whatever it may be.

As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow. As long as the nation refuses to acknowledge the equal role of more than half of itself, it is doomed to failure.

Success is about us. Significance is about others.

A lot of people believe they are successful because they have everything they want. They have added value to themselves. But I believe significance comes when you add value to others and you can't have true success without significance.

Spend at least an hour today giving your fullest gift, whatever that is for today, so that when you go to sleep at night you know you couldn't have lived your day with more courage, creativity, and giving.

The most important lesson I've learned is how rich and rewarding life is when one can engage in meaningful work, whether on the job or outside of work.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Instead of just getting old and giving up and dying, let's learn to make a huge contribution to life.

It's only a drop in the ocean - but the ocean wouldn't be the same without that drop.

I am driven by great work and seeing people do incredible things and having a part in that.

At the end of the day, most people just want to be valued. They want to feel they have put their time to something that will seem to have been of value when they die.

You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.

That's my ultimate goal, just being a part of something special.

If your job is not making a difference in this world, by all means, get out there and find something else ... You’ll find a sense of making a difference through your work if you simply look for it.

Make your life about something bigger than your life.