Quotes About Impact

We all want to make a difference, to live in peace, to have joy each morning that we get to live this day and see what it brings.

The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

Start each day asking, "How do I want others to feel?" Then act accordingly. xo

Not everyone who died had left a "memory" and not everyone who had left a memory had left a "blessed" one. Therefore, not all have died should be tagged "...of a blessed memory

Sometimes miracles happen in this world simply because good people take action and decide to do something, and never give up.

The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

The public hardly suspects that their purchase of cosmetics, pet food, toothpaste, eggs and other common items have, in all likelihood, caused some form of animal suffering.

Saving just one pet won't change the world but surely the world will change for that one pet.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.

As good as you've been to this world is as good as it's gonna be right back to you.

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

Philosophy must never be divorced from action. Unless it is put into practice, philosophy is nothing more than an intellectual game.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Why are we so blind to see that the only ones we hurt are you and me?

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

Philosophy can make people sick.

...you don't need to be technically great, because if you have a strong philosophy people will be moved by your pictures regardless.

The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.

You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.

I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic.

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.