Quotes About Impact

It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.

SOUND vibrations of your words affect the space around them. You literary TOUCH others with what you say.

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others....

Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others… In this world so filled with problems, so constantly threatened by dark and evil challenges, you can and must rise above mediocrity, above indifference. You can become involved and speak with a strong voice for that which is right.

work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.

Believe in yourselves. Believe in your capacity to do some good in this world. God sent us here for a purpose, and that was to improve the world in which we live. The wonderful thing is that we can do it.

It is not enough just to be good. We must be good for something. We must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for our presence. And the good that is in us must be spread to others. This is the measure of our civility.

All of us are the products of the lives that touched upon our own lives

Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others.

What was it about disfigurement, however arbitrary the source, that led the mind to underestimate, even dismiss the victim …

You're either an agent of change, or a victim of it

As jurist Marshall also noted, "the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

It's not what happens to people on the page; it's about what happens to a reader in his heart and mind.

Bruce," I said, "the term Gail and I kicked around this morning that sums up what you've got there is inf luence, a holy influence. It pertains to men and women who renounce mediocrity and embrace the possibility that God can use them

Why it was all your doing," replied t

It would be narrowness to suppose that an artist can only care for the impressions of those who know the methods of his art as well as feel its effects. Art works for all whom it can touch.

Hamilton may truly be "the man who made modern America.

Better by far spend two whole days on a quarter page ad, and have it right, than fill a whole page full of bombastic piffle and senseless inanities...

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

It is curious how a man can stamp his personality upon earthly things.

Belief stains darker, imprints deeper than truth.