Quotes About Impact

One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never even meet.

Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as the swatter remained in view.

a half-dollar's worth will sometimes do for the poor what hundreds of dollars may fail to do for the rich; it makes them happy and grateful

To help create positive change in others, you must first find the catalyst for positive change in yourself," Mary Miller, Changing Direction: Ten Choices That Impact Your Dreams (Chapter 1).

resonate deeply in modern imaginations

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.

The simple mathematical fact working here is that variation is always amplified as it moves down a chain of connected events. A little variation in step one introduces a huge variation five steps later.

No dudéis nunca de que un pequeño grupo de ciudadanos comprometidos puede cambiar el mundo. De hecho, es lo único que ha sido capaz de cambiarlo. Margaret Mead

When I rode on to meet the army, I learned a thing one never forgets after: how much easier it is to move the many than the few.

It's not what one is, it's what one does with it.

Today, I think most smokers experience the same denial as alcoholics regarding the impact of this abuse.

So many people came into your life, and they were such a part of the everyday that it was impossible to imagine them gone until, one day, they were.

The Bureaus of Prisons in states across America know this well; many of them project the number of prison beds they will need in the future based on third- or fourth-grade reading statistics.

I had no idea how much music and singing really means to people, and in my own tiny way to be a part of that is very humbling and very sweet, and and I feel very honored. ... I have a great appreciation for this, in every ways and a new understanding, and I'm just as amazed as anyone else.

You're doing OK. You're always doing OK however bad you think you are doing this is another page of the book. But remember the responsibility you can have, or the power you can have, to make the sun shine a little brighter for the person next to you. Even if you never see them again it will mean the world to them, what you can do.

It's not the impression you make, it's the impression you leave. -A Tennessee woman remembering her Old Southern grandmother

There is power in words used accurately and well, and tragedy and missed train connections in words used carelessly.

The energy of our every thought, action, or word, once it has been projected, lasts eternally without disappearing.

If you always utter vulgar words or words that pierce others' hearts, hurt them, or cause them to suffer, nobody will. Even your parents and friends who love you would hesitate to do so. Not even one of the words you have uttered will sell; your energy will run low and become negative; you will become poor; and you won't be able to continue to live. This is how you torture yourself with your own words.

The wonderful words that you give to others have two or three times more power than the energy that you receive from others. This is the law of the universe; this is truth. Therefore, give all that is within you.

To give your positive or negative attention to something is a way of giving energy. The most damaging form of behavior is withholding your attention.

In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

The repercussion of ugliness is endless.