Quotes About Impact

We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

Writers are the engineers of human souls.

Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes things, the dictators change things, but writers can't change anything.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Give a man a fish — he will eat for a day. Teach a man how to start a commercial fishing business — he will deplete the seas, overfish the oceans, wipe out entire ecosystems, and devastate the planet.

Think of that — what little things change the world's history...

The world moves along, not merely by the gigantic shoves of its hero-workers, but by the aggregate tiny pushes of every honest worker whatever.

The tongue is not the sea but it can drown you.

The year 2020 has been the 1918 Spanish Flu, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s all rolled into one.

If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

What a constant creation life was! Any day, any hour, any minute, something good or bad happened and became part of you for a lifetime.

Postoje ljudi, koji ti za pet minuta pokvare cijeli dan, a postoje i oni s kojima provedeš minut, a poželiš da traje vje?no.

Great men die twice, once when they leave this world and a second time when their life work disappears.

Ne treba mene žaliti. Jer svi mi umiremo samo jednom, a veliki ljudi po dva puta; jednom kad ih nestane sa zemlje, a drugi put kad propadne njihova zadužbina.

Bana hiç ac?may?n… Biz, s?radan insanlar, yaln?z bir sefer ölürüz. Ama büyük adamlar iki sefer ölürler. Birinci sefer bu dünyay? b?rak?p göçtükleri, ikinci sefer de b?rakt?klar? eserler, y?k?l?p kayboldu?u zaman.

Svako ljudsko delo i svaka re? mogu da donesu zlo.

There is no need to feel sorry for me. For all of us die only once, whereas great men die twice, once when they leave this world and a second time when their lifework disappears.

all of us die only once, whereas great men die twice, once when they leave this world and a second time when their lifework disappears.

gospodstvo je kao veliki vjetar; kre?e se, kida i osipa.

The impact of a lack of self-acceptance is intensified in the relationships between and among women.

Whether you consider yourself religious, spiritual, somewhere in between, or nowhere on the continuum, your relationship with your Source, Creator, or Divine Essence impacts and affects every relationship in your life, including the relationship you have with yourself.

I WONDER IF PEOPLE REALIZED THE PAIN THEY CAUSE WITH THEIR MEAN SPEAKING AND JUDGMENTS