Quotes About Impact

I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most.

We can't fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can

The world is more malleable than you think, and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

The Bible Belt and its unchristian undertow leaving welts on the bare bottoms of unbelievers.

The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

It's much harder to be relevant than it is to be successful.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Kada smo u kontaktu sa drugim ?ovekom, mi mu ili pomažemo ili smetamo. Nema tre?eg: ili ga vu?emo na dole, ili ga izvla?imo na površinu.

The one thing that is most worth living for—and dying for, if need be—is the opportunity of making some one else more happy and more useful.

In the first place, those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much suffering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.

I confess that what I saw during my month of travel and investigation left me with a very heavy heart. The work to be done in order to lift these people up seemed almost beyond accomplishing. I was only one person, and it seemed to me that the little effort which I could put forth could go such a short distance toward bringing about results. I wondered if I could accomplish anything, and if it were worth while for me to try.

The man who is known, and has the confidence of the public, can, if he does not allow himself to be fooled by his own popularity, accomplish a great deal more, perform a much greater public service, than the man whose name is unknown.

What one man does is something done, in some measure, by all men.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces. The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.

He was the large protruding nail on which destiny snagged her coat.

Words are what drives the world. Don't ever forget that, boy. People want words, and the less they understand them, the more effective they are.

He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.

Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.

The most wonderful thing about this whole process is that people's contributions to the lives of others become the primary means of getting the results they want in their own lives.

With so many amazing artists on one bill, we expect this concert to be incredibly powerful in its ability to raise both money and awareness for the long-term rebuilding effort we must all support.

For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

You tell them - you tell them there's a cost.....Every decision we make in life, there's always a cost.