Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert FrostIt seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George EliotI used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.
Kevin GatesPeace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.
Herbert HooverIf I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
C. S. LewisFor my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.
Abraham LincolnThere are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
Nelson MandelaThat service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
Mahatma GandhiA poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert FrostI have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.
Dalai LamaThe reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.
Mr. TNo man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
Booker T. WashingtonWhere does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.
John SteinbeckMay I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
Franz KafkaI was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
Bill GatesIf I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
Isaac NewtonI suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
Douglas MacArthurLovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.
Christopher HitchensAn honest man’s the noblest work of God.
Alexander PopeThe end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Thomas CarlyleWe learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.
Michelle ObamaIn order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
Elon MuskI cannot with any real integrity perform songs I’ve done for 25 years. I don’t need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute.
David BowieNothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIt is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
Ralph Waldo EmersonShe would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.
Angelina JolieI have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.
Angelina JolieTo run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
AristotleWould that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
Khalil GibranPoland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression.
Ronald ReaganThe challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
Stephen CoveyI’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
Steve JobsWhere ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.
Angelina JolieGive me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
William ShakespeareThings don’t have to change the world to be important.
Steve JobsA human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.
Carl JungSome people wonder all their lives if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem.
Ronald ReaganThe universe is not indifferent to our existence – it depends on it.
Stephen HawkingWe’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.
Jordan PetersonA life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie RobinsonThe only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.
Russell M. NelsonI never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.
Maya AngelouIt seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
John RuskinNature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe noblest search is the search for excellence.
Lyndon B. JohnsonWhen you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Eleanor RooseveltTraditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.
Joyce MeyerA worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.
Russell M. NelsonEvery man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Hermann HesseIn politics nothing is contemptible.
Benjamin DisraeliI suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.
David BowieI really miss being able to blend in with people.
Kurt CobainA gentleman is never rude except on purpose – I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.
Christopher HitchensLife is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
Stephen CoveyThat country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
John RuskinMy view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate.
Henry KissingerWe can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.
Lou HoltzI don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!
Anne FrankPolitics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWe 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.
Mother Teresa