Quotes About Impact

The value of your life has nothing to do with how much money you earn; it is determined by what you give to others.

Isn't it funny how just one little phone call or text can make your bad day suddenly wonderful?!

I want to make him stop dead, in the middle of the hall and say, 'Wow she's beautiful.'

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year

A kind word from a stranger, or unexpected encouragement from a friend, can make all the difference in the world.

Some people are special cause of what they say or what they do but you are special to me because of the things you've done for me and who you are in my life. Cause just by being there, you've made all the difference.

Good teachers leave their footprints behind for others to walk in and continue the revolution.

The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding teacher.

When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.

Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.

If kids come to us [educators teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Freedom of speech can be just as deadly as the right to bear arms.

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom

The best way to make somebody remember you, borrow money from them.

I thought of you today. I saw a cockroach and you crossed my mind. I stepped on it.

If I were a bird, you'd be the first person I'd sh.. on.

Attitudes are contagious. Do you want people around you to catch yours?