Quotes About Impact

did you think of the impact your actions would have on the women of the city? That men would punish their wives harshly or even discard them for the smallest refractions, saying King Ram did so. Then why shouldn't I?

Behold, we give you this girl, a gift beyond what you asked for. Take good care of her, for she will change the course of history.

Dia yakin tentang itu. Bukankah itulah kebenaran? Kekuatan keyakinan seseorang merembes kepada orang-orang di sekitarnya--ke dalam tanah, udara, dan air-- sampai tidak ada yang lainnya." -Krishna

He believes it to be so. Isn't that what truth is? The force of a person's believing seeps into those around him— into the very earth and air and water—until there's nothing else.

There's always a connection, a reason because of which people enter your orbit, bristling with dark energy like a meteor intent on collision.

Away back in that time-in 1492-there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man. . . What did he find when he first arrived here Did he find a white man standing on the continent then . . . I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me.

A good silence never harmed anyone but speaking often causes harm.

As with much of the world's problems, they become public--or much more of interest--the moment they begin to impact the West.

I think it's an aggregation of all of the small acts that are really transformative. I think a group of small acts transform the individual. And maybe when the individual transforms, collectively we transform.

When trying to persuade a school board to endorse the program, three is the critical number, said Irvine. "If you get one person going in to the board, he is the one crazy person. He's easy to ignore. If you get two people going in, well, the crazy guy's got a buddy, so we can still ignore [them]. But if you get three, that's a committee. It's hard to ignore a committee. A committee makes recommendations; you've at least got to consider it.

But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.

Our privileges are not for our pleasure but rather for our purpose.

No person is great in and of themselves; they must touch the lives of other great beings that will inspire them, lift them, and push them forward.

Leaders lead for the joy of creating something bigger than themselves.

Abraham Lincoln said, "Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it's the only thing.

Leadership is influence—nothing more, nothing less.

If you focus any energy trying to please those you're not for, you will change how you do things and simultaneously stop thrilling those you are for!3

Our greatest fear should not be that we won't succeed, but rather that we will succeed at something that doesn't matter.

To succeed without meaning is not to succeed at all.

Hunger, it should be noted, is different from ambition. Where ambition is largely about self-aggrandizement, hunger is more about service and significance.

It's the men, and the leadership they follow, who make all the difference.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can."7

Do you remember back when you felt you could actually do something to make the world better?" "You're talking to the wrong man. I work for central government, remember? Actually doing something is the mistake we're trained to avoid.