Quotes About Impact

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.

If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.

The have influence, but no power. In my experience, influence is power.

I saw, I wrote, and the world changed a little.

In my experience, influence is power.

We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place.

who would expect less? she said. You're a Wiggin. Whatever that means. He said. It means that you are going to make a difference in the world.

Achilles acted as if he had already won, and because the other kids followed him, he had.

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

We're an ecological disaster. Exactly, said the expendable.

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more.

How did I become the one to make this decision for everyone?

the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was? I can quit right now, if that's so.

Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart

What I'm telling you is, there's some people who do things so bad it tears at the fabric of the world, and then there's some people so sweet and good that they can feel it when the world gets torn.

Everything we do means something.

Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone." - Valentine Wiggin

They have influence, but no power. In my experience, influence is power.

The human need to leave something of yourself behind is universal.

Has anyone ever mentioned that when you smile, it would melt steel?

When you don't understand the consequences of your acts, how can you be blamed for them? ... You don't take the blame, he answered. But you still take responsibility. For healing the wounds you caused.