Quotes About Impact

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

The word "now" is like a bomb thrown through the window, and it ticks.

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.

The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

How forcible are right words!

Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, But words can never harm me.

A word spoken in good season, how good it is!

The medium is the message.

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh; but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword; but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.

Words once spoken, can never be recalled.

His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.