Looking for a quote like "everyone has something to contribute to the world"?

Question

Or anything with a similar idea. I'm writing a paper on the pros/cons of group projects.

Seems like I heard a Benjamin Franklin quote once with that idea.

Please give a source if you have one. Thanks!

Answer 1

All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.

Henry Clay

US orator & politician (1777 - 1852)

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Marie Curie

French (Polish-born) chemist & physicist (1867 - 1934)

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

Nancy Newhall

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Nancy Astor

British politician (1879 - 1964)

If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.

Upham

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Joseph Addison

English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 - 1719)

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

Budd Schulberg, O Magazine, November 2003

We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing!

Lynn Johnston, Lynn on Ideas

Canadian cartoonist (1947 - )

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

John F. Kennedy

35th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963)

I like the last one,

Answer 2

We're all in this together.

Answer 3

I'm not sure it's what you're looking for since Franklin had a lot of good quotes, but the one that comes to my mind is

We must all hang together or assuredly we will all hang separately.