Quotes About Impact

Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.

Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met.

I believe man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world face.

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.

The world does not pay men for that which they "know". It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

The man or woman at home who prays often has as much to do with the effectiveness of the missionary on the field, and consequently with the results of his or her labors, as the missionary.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.

I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad.

A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle.

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

The price for men in motion is the occasional collision.

The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a good man pervades every place.

He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point.

The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.