Quotes About Impact

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

If there is a disease in the preaching that I hear most often, it's not that what the minister says is wrong. It's that it is just too small.

Each of us constantly makes decisions about how to interact with other people, and each of those decisions has the potential to either harm or enhance the other person's well-being.

I believed that the worst thing you can do for a poorly delivered service is to get more physicians or patients to try it and find out how bad it is.

In general, the well-off have the money to outsource their deforesting as they buy food and other commodities grown by clearing land in other countries. As we have seen, they don't stop deforesting, they just do it somewhere far from home.

If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.

Imagine what our real neighbors would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person. There have been so many stories about the lack of courtesy, the impatience of today's world, road rage and even restaurant rage. Sometimes, all it takes is one kind word to nourish another person. Think of the ripple effect that can be created when we nourish someone. One kind empathetic word has a wonderful way of turning into many.

I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next, not to worry that our influence is not that of a tornado, but rather that of a grain of sand in an oyster! Do we have that kind of patience?

Jane Addams, writing about her Twenty Years at Hull House, said, "People did not want to hear about simple things. They wanted to hear about great things—simply told.

To see people who will notice a need in the world and do something about it [...] Those are my heroes.

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to know that we're acceptable, that our being alive somehow makes a difference in the lives of others.

Love and trust, in the space between what's said and what's heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

So I went through the whole list except the names beginning with H, and when I had finished I found that twenty-six boys out of the forty-six in my class had died for das 1000-jährige Reich.

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

I just want to go in with the right attitude and from Day 1 make a difference.

The man who writes a single line, And hears it often quoted, Will in his life time surely shine, And be hereafter noted.

When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us. It means that if we meet again, you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart.

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.

History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

Teachers work twice as hard as the general public will ever imagine.