Quotes About Impact

Why am I not just some old woman ranting in a room? I think because what I say connects with people's truths.

I think that successful writers somehow capture truths that resonate with readers.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

If you don't think a small act can make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room.

I can't solve the world's problems, can't even begin to contemplate them all. But on my little corner of Earth, I at least can try to live in a way that treads lightly.

When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

The harder you try, the better the impression you set on the people around you.

I believe that I exist for the people. I'm just here to try to make a difference, and hopefully, the people listen and trust me enough to contribute.

It's important to think good, speak good, and do good. If we want to see positive change in the world, then we need to connect to goodness. I try in everything I do, both in business and philanthropy, to make a positive change and do that by doing good.

I think it's my responsibility, as a person of influence... to sometimes try to do what I can.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

If I can bring happiness to people all around the world, then I will try my best to do so.

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.

Nothing is more difficult than trying to correct history.

Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

I'm super down with being irresponsible. I'm just trying to make sure my lack of responsibility no longer hurts people.

We're trying to create people that are going to change the world.

When somebody gives their testimony or tells their story, the next person can be motivated or inspired by it. That's all I'm trying to do.

Jamie Oliver, quite rightly, was talking about trying to improve the diet of children in schools and improving school meals, but the net effect was the number of children eating school meals in many of these places didn't go up, it went down.

I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh?