Quotes About Impact

actions speak louder than words

A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.

How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.

When you make a choice, you change the future.

Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.

The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.

A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.

I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the basic wisdom and goodness to govern themselves without conflict.

It's not what life does to you but what you do to life that counts.

Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.

Cleverness without wisdom: the most destructive force on Earth.

One small action of love can do far, far more for a soul than all the most beautiful words in the world.

One Spirit Medicine opens the doors to the invisible matrix of wisdom where everything is intertwined, where every thought we have impacts every cell in our body and every molecule in the cosmos.

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

Transformed people transform people.

We're short on wisdom; we're high on technology. Where's it going to lead?

Let the people know my wisdom, fill the land with smoke

The foolishness of the cross is the wisdom of God and the wisdom of God is powerful in its impact.

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.

Words matter, and the right words matter most of all. In the end they're all that remain of us.

Are we being good ancestors?

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none