Quotes About Impact

Weyrother evidently felt himself to be at the head of a movement that had already become unrestrainable. He was like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. Whether he was pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead to.

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

We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them.

There are men who call land theirs, yet have never set eyes on that land and have never trodden it. There are men who call other men theirs, but yet have never set eyes on the other men, and their sole relation to those other men consists of doing them evil.

Though murdered kings, like all dead men, lie quiet and unoffending in the ground, they rot and spread contagion in men's minds.

After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.

It was nothing, it was business but it left an ugly mark.

Take the only tree that's left And stuff it up the hole In your culture

If you're not attempting to get someone to see, feel, think, or act in a particular manner, why bother communicating at all?

series of studies over the past seven years has demonstrated clearly and unambiguously that the more time your child spends playing video games, the less likely he is to do well in school—whether he is in elementary school, middle school, high school, or college. This

Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.

One voice can enter ten ears, but ten voices cannot enter one ear.

It took less than three generations of children online to wipe out the part of the brain that's hard-wired for awe.

What could you do to make a difference in the world?

Ask yourself if you are leaving a trail that others may want to follow. Are you leaving a legacy of accomplishment? What mark will you leave on your industry? Your friends and family?

We may be through with our past, but the past isn't through with us.

We should be ashamed to die until we've made some major contribution to human kind.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don't seem to care to talk about yourself," [Lefevre] said to Flagler. "I prefer to let what I have done speak for me," Flagler replied. "By their works ye shall know them," Lefevre suggested. "Yes, that's it," Flagler said - as eagerly as he had said anything, according to his interviewer.

We may not be able to damage the sun directly but humans can cause chaos and through that threaten maat on earth. What happens on one level of creation will impact on the others." - Sekhmet & Bastet: The Feline Powers of Egypt

Life isn't about finding you're purpose. It's about going out and creating a purpose to be remembered by.

To safeguard what we've won and to move forward requires securing, solidifying, and making more permanent alliances with others who are hurt by the same system. Consciousness plays an important role in cementing this coalition. Shared consciousness becomes a material force because what you're fighting for and what you are determined to win together has a big impact on how your foes react to you.

I am overwhelmed sometimes and feel a great deal of wonder at words, just simple words and how deeply we can touch each other with them, though I know that most of the time language is the most abused of all human abilities or traits.

But there was something else now, as Betonie said: it was everything they had seen—the cities, the tall buildings, the noise and the lights, the power of their weapons and machines. They were never the same after that: they had seen what the white people had made from the stolen land.