Quotes About Impact

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

An institution is the lengthening shadow of one man.

Every life is a possession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.

No one is entirely useless. Even the worst of us can serve as horrible examples.

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relation of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable, in retrospect.

The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites.

Jellinek's disease (alcoholism) is responsible for: 50 percent of all auto fatalities 80 percent of all home violence 30 percent of all suicides 60 percent of all child abuse 65 percent of all drownings It is estimated that when a woman contracts the disease, her husband leaves her in nine out often cases; when a man contracts it, his wife leaves in one out of ten cases.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin. I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.

Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity, and he will set fire to the world.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.

Little things affect little minds.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.