Quotes About Impact

listened instead to the left-wing, anti-biblical teachings of Dr. Benjamin Spock in the '50s.

You must guard your mouth, because no matter what you say, you are launching weapons of one sort or another.

death and life are in the power of the tongue" (Prov. 18:21) means that you have tremendous power not only to attract blessing, but also to invoke it in the lives of those you love.

One needn't understand the workings of a pistol to pull its trigger.

You've probably heard comments such as these your entire life: "Why can't she put her stuff away?" "Doesn't she care how it affects the rest of us?" "Why is she so lazy?" "What a pig!" And you have most likely internalized these painful, derogatory, negative remarks over the years until they have slaughtered your self-esteem, making you wonder What is wrong with me?

Whether you communicate God's Word, recruit others to teach, plan a life-altering youth retreat, lead a neighbor to Christ, or give toward a missionary's support, what you do produces waves of grace that keep expanding—all the way to eternity!

It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies

There is no public entertainment which does not inflict spiritual damage.

Just one such faint spark can set the whole world on fire.

It doesn't matter if you work at a fast food joint or if you are the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Your job title does not define your purpose. The size of your paycheck does not make you worthy. What makes you valuable is your contribution to the world and the legacy that you leave behind. Stop defining yourself by what you do, and start defining yourself by who you are!

If we don't measure the impact of our efforts on the objectives of those we are serving, we will remain blind to important ways we need to adjust and will end up not serving others well.

With our love, we could save the world ... if they only knew.

Like a beautiful flower, full of colour but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly.

Sting of a bee kills one person but sting of words hurt an entire nations

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

My maternal grandmother was not a philosopher, and she used to say that "words have no bones, but they can break bones." She knew what we all know: a word can cause more pain, more damage than the sharpest knife. As far as she was concerned, saying something and doing something were exactly the same.

A landscape becomes uglier when an admirer disrupts it with the words 'how beautiful'.

The world has a lot to thank murderers for, when you come to think of it.

They brought even their goats with them; and one goat can undo in an afternoon what it has taken decades to establish.

The work of cultural destruction, while often swifter, easier, and more self-conscious than that of construction, is not the work of a moment. Rome wasn't destroyed in a day.

People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words are, as a rule, the shallowest portion of all the argument. They but dimly represent the great surging feelings and desires which lie behind. When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.

In politics, the things that do not happen are frequently as significant as those that do.