It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.
William Pollard

It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.
Gwen Stefani

It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.
Edward Thorndike

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
Lawrence Durrell

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
Elias Canetti

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.
Henry Home

Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.
Johannes Stark

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
George Savile

Now, at this point, I can wrestle, I can go out there and cut an entertaining promo, I can also do the backstage stuff... and if you can contribute more to the show, you have more staying power.
Trish Stratus

Obviously it's critical that the three cars are able to contribute to the program. I think that certainly has given much of the reason as to why we did so well at Indy over the last several years.
Bobby Rahal

On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.
Wim Wenders

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
Albert Ellis

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.
Anne Campbell

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
Bertolt Brecht

Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could.
Adam Rickitt

So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.
Patrick J. Kennedy

Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.
Martin Yan

That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time.
Michael Baden