Quotes About Impact

Have you ever experienced something so great That years later you regretted the whole thing Seeing the hole it left in you?

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor; and no man can tell what becomes of his influence.

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?

Too mutch religion iz wuss than none at all. Yu kant sho me a kuntry that haz existed yet, whare the people, all ov them, professed one religion and persekuted all other kinds, but what the religion ruined the country.

Jakie spo?ecze?stwo, taka literatura.

What a strange power there is in woman! She comes in contact with a genius without portfolio, an exceptionally useless implement like me, and then, without any preaching on her part, he feels himself in duty bound to do all sorts of things he never dreamed of doing before. The

Those are the men,' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.

Although on a conscious level a man lives for himself, he is actually being used for the attainment of humanity's historical aims. A deed once done becomes irrevocable, and any action comes together over time with millions of actions performed by other people to create historical significance.

The most important acts, both for the one who accomplishes them and for his fellow creatures, are those that have remote consequences.

In historical events great men - so-called - are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels they have the least possible connexion with the event itself.

The most important and necessary human deed, for both doer and recipient, are those of which he does not see the results.

The fate of books depends on the understanding of those who read them.

How many different plant-lives man destroys to support his own existence - I thought!

Influence in society, however, is capital which has to be economized if it is to last. Prince

Influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized if it is to last.

The deeper we go in search of causes, the more of them we find, and each cause taken singly or whole series of causes present themselves to us as equally correct in themselves, and equally false in their insignificance in comparison with the enormity of the event, and equally false in their incapacity (without the participation of all other coinciding causes) to produce the event that took place.

Influence in society, however, is capital which has to be economized if it is to last.