Quotes About Impact

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!

Something must happen!

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

Words are mere bubbles of water, but deeds are drops of gold.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

One's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into action ... which bring results.

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you haven't even begun to live.

No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purpose.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.

I expect to pass though this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.

When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?

It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an okay person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.

I shall not pass this way again: Then let me now relieve some pain, Remove some barrier from the road, Or brighten some one's heavy load.

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.