Quotes about Contribution

Inviting others to help us with our work in the Church helps them feel needed and helps them feel the Spirit. When these feelings come, many people often then realize that something has been missing from their lives.

I want to do good work. I want to be involved in other people's doing good work.

Church is not for spectators.

God calls women to run—to trust him and invest ourselves in the race he has marked out—to participate, contribute and fight for what is right.

Ruth's story helped me see that neither I nor any of God's daughters belong on the sidelines, while our brothers build his kingdom without us. He means for us to work alongside our brothers, and he is doing great things through his daughters, even though we, like Ruth and Naomi, may never live to see the full significance of our contributions.

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives, and not in what he is able to receive.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

America has given me so much, and I feel so strongly that it's my turn to give back to the country that I love.

You'll always get out of life what you put in-and you control what you put in.

To be truly happy and fulfilled, you must be working toward accomplishing something that is bigger than yourself, and that makes a difference in the life or work of others.

Apply the Law of Three: Identify the three things you do in your work that account for 90 percent of your contribution, and focus on getting them done before anything else. You will then have more time for your family and personal life.

What are your highest value activities? What can you, and only you do, that if done well, can make a real difference?