Quotes About Impact

Your life matters. Your life has purpose. You were put on this earth to capitalize on your strengths and achieve your destiny.

I've dropped my pebble in the ocean, and hopefully; throughout the course of the day; millions of others will drop theirs in too. No single one of us knows which pebble causes the wave to crest, but each of us, quite rightly, believes that it might be ours; an act of faith.

Both men were transformers in life; they thought not of themselves but of a higher cause. They assumed truly heroic transformations in bringing to their societies the idea "you have been thinking one way, you now have to think a different way."399

The important thing about leadership is not what happens when you're there but what happens when you are not there.

Once an innovation reaches a certain level of popularity, its success is virtually assured. By the same token, great innovations can fail because the domino effect doesn't kick in.15

Not everything that matters can be measured, and not everything that can be measured matters.

reflect a long-term and slowly unfolding loss of a way of life for the white, less educated working class.

It is not the dying that matters, it is how the man lived.

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

What will matter is not your success but your significance....

We composers are at least as significant as the stars who make 14 million or 15 million. You just don't see us.

When we make the world a better place, the world makes us better people.

I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.

People believed that they were haunted by bad memories, but that wasn't the truth. The most sinister hauntings were from unrealized futures.

Christianity did not create the Holocaust—indeed, Nazism was anti-Christian—but it made it possible. Without Christian antisemitism, the Holocaust would have been inconceivable.…

He was rejected; we want to be respected. He was regarded as radical; we want to be recognized as reasonable. He was accused of having demons; we are acclaimed for having degrees. He was put out; we long to be taken in. He put no stock in the praise of man; we thrive on it. Is it any wonder we make so little impact here for Him?

That was the problem with money: What people did with it had consequences, but they were so remote from the original action that the mind never connected the one with the other.

When you think of baseball, you immediately think of the New York Yankees. When you think of golf, Bobby Jones comes to mind. When you think of boxing, it's Joe Louis. One of these days when people think of football, I want them to think of the Cleveland Browns.

Persuading a given rando is of virtually zero value.

Long ago, Margaret Mead, the world-famous anthropologist, noted that we should "never underestimate the power of a small group with dedication to change the world; it is, in fact, the only thing that does.

When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You're opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?

the English colonies in North America accounted for only a tiny fraction of the hideous traffic in human beings. David Brion Davis, in his magisterial 2006 history Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, concludes that colonial North America 'surprisingly received only 5 to 6 percent of the African slaves shipped across the Atlantic.' Hugh Thomas in The Slave Trade calculates the percentage as slightly lower, at 4.4 percent.

It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

Center for Science in the Public Interest, simply because it was so ruthlessly effective. Founded in 1971, this group of activists would grow to have nine hundred thousand subscribers to its