Quotes About Impact

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

A speech does not need to be eternal to be immortal.

A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that.

You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em.

O sin, what hast thou done to this fair earth!

Unhurt people are not much good in the world.

Even so, the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things, behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

The glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack!

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help.

What is success? To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; That is to have succeeded.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.

When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

The television commercial is the most efficient power-packed capsule of education that appears anywhere on TV.

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.