Quotes About Impact

the blow made her see stars. There was no time for astronomy in ground fighting, she thought

Guys who get their name splashed all over history and folklore don't tend to be Boy Scout troop leaders.

when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart.

Nice father figure. Him and Bill Cosby.

Great, grinding thunder raised its voice in a throaty roar, and the air turned to falling water.

It's hard, really, really hard, in fact damn near impossible, to exercise power without it having some unexpected consequences. Doesn't matter what kind of power it is—magic, muscle, political office, electricity, moral authority. Use any of it, and you're going to find out that as a result, things happen that you didn't expect.

For all power there is a price.

Bob's knowledge and skills had let me save lives. Mostly my own, maybe, but a lot of other lives, too.

I've never met a place I couldn't blow up, burn down, or knock over with enough motivation

What I believe doesn't matter, Mr. Dresden. What is important is that a lot of the scum out there believe in it. It affects the way they think and operate. If I could make use of your advice to solve this case, I would, the same as any other law officer.

It was that last phrase that did it. It hit me like a bucket of cold water. Maggie.

The five minutes of kindness you showed her is going to help thousands of others. And that only takes into account the past day. Despair and pain were averted. Loss and tragedy thwarted. Do you think you haven't struck a blow for the light, Warrior?

Damn," I mumbled, looking back at the spreading fires. "I'm kinda hard on buildings.

In real life, the chair doesn't break when you slug somebody with it, the way it does in the movies. The person you hit is the one who breaks.

And then the vast flaming axe crashed down into the ceiling above us and shattered the world.

Perhaps your quest to be part of building something great will not fall in your business life. But find it somewhere. If not in corporate life, then perhaps in making your church great. If not there, then perhaps a nonprofit, or a community organization, or a class you teach. Get involved in something that you care so much about that you want to make it the greatest it can possibly be, not because of what you will get, but just because it can be done.

Visionary companies pursue a cluster of objectives, of which making money is only one—and not necessarily the primary one.

wouldn't that person be even more amazing if, instead of telling the time, he or she built a clock that could tell the time forever, even after he or she was dead and gone?3

Meaning creates emotion.

these things may be little, but they have more impact on our kids than all the lectures about honesty we could ever deliver.

Consider every choice carefully, no matter how small, for it will affect the bigger decisions you make.

The more you manifest a servant's heart in all you do, the more of an impact you'll have on people's lives.

No matter how old you are or how long--or short!--you've been married, the day you accelerate your growth in the Lord is the day your marriage is positively impacted, improved, and strengthened!

Your impact on the lives of others--your family, the people at your church, your workmates--is cultivated with each decision you make, no matter how small.