Quotes About Impact

La Escuela de Batalla no nos ha creado, ya lo sabes. La Escuela de Batalla no crea nada. Solo destruye.

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.

Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others

They offered something that was genuinely good, and people's lives were better because they offered it. It was not a noble cause that would get written up in the histories. But it was not nothing, either. A person could do worse than spend some large percentage of his life in a cause like that. Bean

Ahora sentía la magnitud de la pérdida de Pipo. El cuerpo mutilado en la falda de la colina no era su muerte, sino simplemente los despojos de su muerte. La muerte en sí era el vacío dejado en su vida.

Nuestra misión es salvar el mundo, no curar corazones heridos. Eres demasiado compasivo.

Hay periodos en que el mundo se reestructura, y en esos períodos las palabras precisas pueden cambiar el mundo.

Are great men ever really good? I know they can be, but we judge them by a different standard. Greatness changes them, whatever they were to start with. It's like war—does any war ever settle anything? But we can't judge that way. The test of a war isn't whether it solved things. You have to ask, Was fighting the war better than not fighting it? And I guess the same kind of test ought to be used on great men.

Cambiar al mundo es bueno para aquellos que quieren su nombre en los libros. Pero ser feliz... eso es para aquellos que escriben sus nombres en las vidas de los demás y retienen los corazones de otros como el tesoro más preciado.

It wasn't the soldiers who changed. It was the leader.

But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear. Valentine

He was the most dangerous of men, because, in his actions, he saw only good. He saw himself as a hero.

How do you know there wasn't something that he touched kindly? Someone who loved him, who was blessed by his love? Destroyed everything he touched – that's a lie that can't truthfully be said of any human being who ever lived.

It is very important to concentrate on hitting the U.S. economy through all means possible

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.

From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power.

Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

Good heavens! how marriage ruins a man! It's as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.