Quotes About Impact

Prayer at its best is the expression of the total life, for all things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?

We also serve who only punctuate.

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

By gnawing through a dyke, even a rat may drown a nation.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.

Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.

I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?

The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.

The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person ... who is worthy of emulation.

Example has more followers than reason.

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

Nothing is so infectious as example.

I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

It is the duty of youth to bring its fresh powers to bear on social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should lift the world forward. That is what they are for.

Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.