Quotes About Impact

Clever lines routinely travel from obscure mouths to prominent ones.

The most beautiful thoughts are nothing without good works.34

If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.

Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words

Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.

He is great who confers the most benefits.

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.