Significant Contributions Quotes

What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

It sounds vain, but I could probably make a difference for almost everyone I ever met if I chose to involve myself with them either professionally or personally.

There’s no point to living life unless you make history and the best way to make history is to help others.

The contributions being made by Latinos are extraordinary, and we need to talk about them.

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.

There's people that get a chance to do the kind of work that changes the world, and make things really different. And there's the kind that just keeps the world from falling apart.

Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their hearts they've done a good thing, too, and are more satisfied with themselves than most people are. Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.

Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

I've done a lot of special things in this game, and for none of that to be considered clutch, it's an injustice.

We work on things that really matter.

Most of the significant contributions that have been made to society have been made by people who were tired.

It's not what you have at the end of life, it's what you leave behind that matters.

I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty

You don't always realize the impact you have on people's lives. You just think 'I'm an actor, I don't think I'm doing anything particularly important in life' and then you suddenly realize that actually for a fleeting moment you do make a difference to somebody's life - it has an impact.

We wanted to touch them with our action.

I am about to put foward some major ideas; they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will; in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.

I did almost everything in my footballing career.

What are the stories you want people to tell about you?

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.