Quotes About Impact

From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that's all that matters.

The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.

You are 100 percent responsible for how your children turn out. And you accomplish that by teaching them that they are 100 percent responsible for how they turn out.

For me, it's all about who you are. Some athletes may feel a responsibility. Some may not. One thing I've talked with my family and team about is doing more. Trying to make an impact.

If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her community, but at the aggregate level for the economy.

Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too.

The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.

Divorce is fairly common these days, and I think many times people disregard the emotional impact that divorce has on a couple and a family, because it happens so frequently.

Education can change the scope of an entire family

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.

How parents interact with each child as he or she enters the family circle determines in great part that child's final destiny.

in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

Tobacco farmers would say, "Look, I'm just trying to make a living and feed my family." Nevertheless, tobacco is incredibly harmful and kills people.

When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

Irreverence ran on both sides of our family...my parents brought me up to think we could all change the world.

Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.

I was raised on 'Get Smart' and 'All in the Family' and 'M.A.S.H.,' and certainly when 'Cheers' came along, that was a big one.

The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.

Dear Mr. President, can I ask you a question, when the bombs fall down will they hurt everyone in my family?

Everything family does is reflection on the other people.