Quotes About Impact

Unaware, then, how short futures could be. How quick they could disappear, leave you with nothing but a long-ass present that held no surprises, no reason for hope, nothing but days that bled into one another with so little impact that another year was over and the calendar page in the kitchen was still stuck on March.

It took only a second for another to arrive on the same path as yours and change your life to a point it couldn't change back. One second.

We measure morality by what happens. Not what is intended.

forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

it is Christians who have been primarily responsible for disseminating knowledge of the Torah to so much of the world.

While individual human beings do enormous good, mankind has always been morally unimpressive.

Very few of us can or will be famous. But all of us can be significant.

In 2008, then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama told an audience, "Children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools, and twenty times more likely to end up in prison.

Every day we need to decide what kind of legacy we want to leave. What kind of children do we want to raise? And what kind of relationship do we need to build with them?

You is blessin' folks with your dollars and service, but a dollar bill and plate of food ain't changin' a life. That takes love.

Don't just aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference.

At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. It's about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It's about what you've given back.

Don't just aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference

We have become so brainwashed by the fast, usually bloodless, and always painless deaths shown continually by the movie and television production industry that our collective perceptions of the act of death are sanitized. Whether by gunshot or through illness, the actor just rolls over and that's the end. We want so much to believe that this is true that we don't question it.

What now matters most is that we avoid ending human history. If there are no rational beings elsewhere, it may depend on us and our successors whether it will all be worth it, because the existence of the Universe will have been on the whole good.

The power of proclamation is the one weapon the church needs to major in these days.

The main vehicle of both blessings and curses is words. Such words may be spoken or written or merely uttered inwardly.

When you set out to change the world, the job seems insurmountable, but each of us can do his or her small part to effect change. We change the world when we choose to create a world of forgiveness in our own hearts and minds.

The quality of human life on our planet is nothing more than the sum total of our daily interactions with one another. Each time we help, and each time we harm, we have a dramatic impact on our world.

Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ! -Claire

You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

Once a man has lived under arms, I suspect he is marked for life.In fact I have heard it remarked that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

The universe had shifted, with a small, decisive click; he could still hear its echo in his bones.

Papa says that wars take three generations to fade from the ground where they're fought. And from what I've seen, Friends have quite long memories, as well." "He might just have a point.