Quotes About Impact

If you carefully consider what you wanted to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

what we believe about ourselves and our purpose has a powerful impact on how we live, how we love, and what we learn.

My mission is to live with integrity and to make a difference in the lives of others.

For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.

What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did it on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life?

There's no way we can escape accountability. We do make a difference—one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives.

Few of us can do great things, but all of us can do small things with great love. MOTHER TERESA

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things… I am tempted to think… there are no little things.

It shows, first of all, how powerfully conditioning affects our perceptions, and our paradigms. If ten seconds can have that kind of impact on the way we see things, what about the conditioning of a lifetime?

Pareto Principle—80 percent of the results flow out of 20 percent of the activities.

For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root." We can only achieve

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil—the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

The difference between people who exercise initiative and those who don't is literally the difference between night and day. I'm not talking about a 25 to 50 percent difference in effectiveness; I'm talking about a 5000-plus percent difference, particularly if they are smart, aware, and sensitive to others.

This is the true joy in life—that being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. That being a force of nature, instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual has phrased it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic." No

You must be open and influenceable; then ironically, you will also discover an increase in your own power to influence

It is not what others do or even our own mistakes that hurt us the most; it is our response to those things.

Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do something about.

My criticism is worse than the conduct I want to correct. My ability to positively impact the situation withers and dies.

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My experience has been that there are times to teach and times not to teach. When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection. But to take the child alone, quietly, when the relationship is good and to discuss the teaching or the value seems to have much greater impact. It may have been that the emotional maturity to do that was beyond my level of patience and internal control at the time.

is not only a part, but the most catalytic, the most empowering, the most

What contributions, what achievements will you want to have made in your field

there are times to teach and times not to teach. When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection. But to take the child alone, quietly, when the relationship is good and to discuss the teaching or the value seems to have much greater impact.