Quotes About Impact

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart.

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

If events change men, much more persons. No man can meet another on the street without making some mark upon him. We say we exchange words when we meet; what we exchange is souls. And when intercourse is very close and very frequent, so complete is this exchange that recognizable bits of the one soul begin to show in the other's nature, and the second is conscious of a similar and growing debt to the first.

The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

Every environment is a cause. Its effect upon me is exactly proportionate to my correspondence with it. If I correspond with part of it, part of myself is influenced. If I correspond with more, more of myself is influenced; if with all, all is influenced. If I correspond with the world, I become worldly; if with God, I become Divine.

Stephen Grellet wrote: 'I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

while life has always been stressful, there is something different about how it affects us

Let us consider the nature of true greatness in men. The people who can catch hold of men's minds and feelings and inspire them to do things bigger than themselves are the people who are remembered in history. . . . those who stir feelings and imagination and make men struggle toward perfection.

He sat there staring down into the descending darkness, his thoughts wildly mixed and uncertain. For the moment he knew only one thing; from this night forwards he would never be able to think of Jane Hudson or her sister without experiencing all over again the same awful retching sickness that he felt now.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.

As we serve our jobs we serve the world.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

If a device would save in time 10% or bring about results worth 10% then its absence is worth 10%.

in the beginning there was hardly any one who sensed that the automobile could be a large factor in industry. The

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more service for the betterment of life.

The charitable system that does not aim to make itself unnecessary is not performing service.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.