Quotes About Impact

When people feel that their contributions are unappreciated, they will stop trying. And when that happens, innovation dies.

Genuine leaders make things better not just for themselves but for others, whether or not their contribution results in financial reward or popular recognition. (...) most people I think of leaders are untitled (...) they achieve greatness by working quietly in their organizations and communities, in their own lives, and in helping those around them.

Gandhi's most decisive influence on his opponents was more indirect than direct.

like a small stone deflected off a larger one, my brother had spun off toward the Almighty, though to my mind the events of that morning could just as well have cast him the other way.

Nations, empires and movements boom or collapse according to greater forces than the personal traits of their leaders.

Emotions are like a boomerang.

All great things come from love, don't they?" "I guess they do," Anna said, and looked away. "The worst things, too.

You never want to be the absolute leader in the game of life, the man out front, the one everyone sees and looks to,

The randomness of what had been destroyed and what had survived bothered him nearly as much as the destruction itself. He

the world. They died in the 1980s.

The only way to make my life matter is to choose less. And the first thing I need less of is me. Once that issue is settled, I am in a position to live a life that lasts longer than I do.

The old English preacher Charles Spurgeon said: "A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts and not marble.

How sad. I've just had a walk down The Grange and passed an angry old man from my old church. He just turned round, stood, and glared, shaking his head at me. I don't understand why people are sometimes so hostile and never seem to be able to let go. This poor chap and many like him have attended church every week of their lives, and yet it seems to have had no impact whatsoever on their characters. Alas, it is a mystery indeed.

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work.

A great person is one who affects the younger generation by his positivity

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

The most powerful music is music with purpose.