Quotes About Impact

That we wouldn't be able to do. Not even if we wanted it more than anything in the world. Because once we've touched a world, it stays touched.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.

Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

This new phenomena [atomic energy] would also lead to the construction of bombs…. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory. However, such bombs might very well prove to be too heavy for transportation by air.

A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.

Words have consequences.

To be sure, the church has greatly assisted the colonialist; backing his ventures, helping his conscience, contributing to the acceptance of colonization even by the colonized.

LOIS MADDEN was happy, very, very happy—until some one told her she was not. Happiness is a mystic bud that a single breath can wake into riotous bloom or wither to a shrivel. And it has no existence except in its possessor's heart. That is why a breath, laden with a few silly cynicisms from a wise fool, was able to do all sorts of things to Lois Madden's gladness.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others it's the only thing.

The Full Measure of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive in others because of him.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

In this place that we live--my West, my father's North, and my mother's new hemisphere--rabbits in a burning field of grass can catch on fire. They run to a clear place where there is no fire, but, in doing so, light it up because their fur is burning. That way, in trying to save themselves, they spread the fire more. . . . And it speeds to everyone.

I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous.