Quotes About Impact

I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do for any fellow being, let me do it now ... as I shall not pass this way again.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Kindness affects more than severity.

There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society. Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained and efficient forces.

Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.

Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.

What its children become, that will the community become.

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit.

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

The fragrance of what you give away stays with you.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print; the main thing is still to make history, not to write it.

Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

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

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

I think 'Hand to God' is going to change the landscape of Broadway. I think Broadway, truthfully, will never be the same.

Truthfully, I think anything involving Tebow opens people's eyes.

The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

I think when an actor feels like they're being watched with great sensitivity and a subtle eye and a nose for truthfulness, that has some effect.

'Thrones' would be the perfect platform to send a progressive message because right now, our politicians aren't telling us any truths. It's hard to find a good, meaningful message, so I think it's up to storytellers, television shows, and films to have an impact on the world conversation. Is that not what film and television is for?