Quotes About Impact

I'm an entrepreneur, and I want to be remembered as the seed that was planted in good soil and multiplied a hundredfold.

If the first half was a quest for success, the second half is a journey to significance.

One of the most common characteristics of a person who is nearing the end of the first half is that unquenchable desire to move from success to significance.

It's the little things you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness.

We need to stop focusing on the negative influences around us and focus on the positive impact we have on others.

What we do and what we know will impact someone today; Who we are will impact someone for a lifetime.

When the church lives out its mission, it will be founded on the gospel, evidence true discipleship, positively impact society, and become the body of Christ in whatever cultural context it develops. Ministry will be done. Jesus will be worshiped as supreme above all else.

Serving others is the best way of applying our faith in such a way that it leads to real transformation and change.

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.

To put it another way, Donald Trump was not having an impact on the culture but simply reflecting a culture that has grown more impolite and vulgar.

There would be babies born to Beatles, to Beatles fans, millions of people who lived their lives to a soundtrack crafted by four Scouse boys who had either grown up or passed along.

Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.

Depending on how high I heaped the stones, each wheelbarrow weighed between 175 and 250 pounds. Once I managed to set it in motion, it was loath to stop without banging me up in some fashion, especially during the thrilling plunge down the backyard hill, when I switched roles from cart pusher to dragging victim.

Our culture places a premium on work, not on relationships. Think about it. When we meet someone, our first question is not so what kind of positive impact are you having on the people around you?" No, it 's " what do you do for a living"? It's not "how are you investing in others?" Instead even if unspoken, it's "how much money do you make?" Our identity lies in jobs, titles, incomes,not in our connections to people.

In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.

You never know how a single interaction with a person might affect their life, so you must constantly try to be at your best.

Money is an amplifier. It makes good people better and bad people worse by creating opportunities they wouldn't have had without it.

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taxpayers pay nearly $150 billion annually for criminal justice costs—half again as much per capita as Canadians—about $2,000 for every family of four.29 Adding costs of security, insurance, loss, damage, or being a victim brings the numbers close to $500 billion—about 7 percent of the U.S. gross national product.

It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.

People say songs are like your children, no they are like your parents. They tell you what to do, they tell you how to behave, they tell you how to misbehave, how to dress. Everything you do is directed by the songs.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.