Quotes About Impact

Beware the unbelief of others. It's contagious!

Have you ever considered that for some people in your life, you might be the only Christian they know?

Your positive impact on the generations to come will be directly related to the ministry you have in that little place called home.

When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought

If you live on the railroad tracks the train's going to hit you, Grandpa used to say. -- Brown Dog

Maybe a single life doesn't amount to much but perhaps it should at least drift toward the common good.

A sonic boom crushes a baby mink's skull. We know that. Isn't it enough?

I know that it's easier to portray a world that's filled with cynicism and anger, where problems are solved with violence. What's a whole lot tougher is to offer alternatives, to present other ways conflicts can be resolved, and to show that you can have a positive impact on your world. To do that, you have to put yourself out on a limb, take chances, and run the risk of being called a do-gooder.

one motion of individual want sends trembles around a circle of dependents, until the whole helpless ring knocks and shakes like a tray of wineglasses in an unsteady waiter's hands. Any music they make is random, involuntary and brief; one can't be still unless they all are, and they never are.

Years later, Philip mused, "In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.

Which teacher has the bigger influence? Where is more time available for change? Those two numbers—900 and 7,800—will appear over and over in this book.

One megachurch pastor told me, "I only have our people for two hours per week, if I am lucky, and Fox News has them 24/7.

I will be dead in five years' time, but while I am here, I will travel many highways and I will, of necessity, die at a time when my message of love, peace, and freedom can be shared with people all over the world.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

People, she sneered, were not meant to be as happy as you make them. … People were meant to be as happy as you make them.

People loved to see him come, and they were sad to see him go.

The life of every human being on earth can depend on the experience, judgment, and vigilance of the person in the Oval Office.

She hoped that although he could not hear her she could somehow imprint her ordinary love upon his memory through all eternity, hoped he would rise thinking of her, we were each other, we were each other, not that it mattered much in the long run but what else mattered as much.

In the South they are convinced that they have bloodied their place with history. In the West we do not believe that anything we do can bloody the land, or change it, or touch it.

Lesbians discussed the dehumanizing aspect of American technology, in French.

Memorizing the five forces won't make you a better business thinker; it will only help you to sound like one. It matters that you grasp the deeper point: there are a limited number of structural forces at work in every industry that systematically impact profitability in a predictable direction.

matters that you grasp the deeper point: there are a limited number of structural forces at work in every industry that systematically impact profitability in a predictable direction.

Length is weight in fiction, pretty much.

The clear-cuts soured all of us