Quotes About Impact

So long as the body is affected through the mind, no audacious device, even of the most manifestly dishonest character, can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or even a partial faith.

10 persons who speak make more noise than 10,000 who are silent.

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.

There are three books my daughter felt were the most important influences in her life: the Bible, her mother's cookbook, and her father's checkbook.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter the whole face of the world would have been changed.

Not a day passes over this earth but men and women of note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

A day's impact is better than a month of dead pull.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.

Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore.

A good speech, like a woman's skirt, should be long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. I have been asked to give my address in the remaining five minutes. That I can do! Here it is: 10 Carlton Gardens, London, England.

The recipe for a good speech includes some shortening.

The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

We fought hard. We gave it our best. We did what was right and we made a difference.

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute something generous dies for want of it.