Quotes About Impact

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

I know that God gave me the blessing to use, to bring honor and glory to Him, and to use to impact the lives of people.

It's great to know that young black girls are seeing themselves on TV as leading ladies, and I'm part of that. It's just such an honor.

It's a great honor that something that you took part in creating becomes this forever object.

We produce programs that honor God and impact our world.

If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor.

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.

It's a masterpiece [The Exorcist]. This is an honor. I know you may not think so, but it really is. How many movies in our lifetime? This is an honor.

Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an honor to make a mark in history like that.

The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.

They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.

It feels like an amazing opportunity to positively impact the world. That's what I hope to do.

It's not just about hope and ideas. It's about action.

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

I hope that I have given happiness to others. I hope I have given children to the world, and that I have made some kind of a mark for myself here.

I also hope that I am occasionally involved in projects that touch other people in ways that make their lives a little better, more interesting for the moment, that makes them think.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.