Quotes About Impact

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

The thing I know for sure is that at the end of my life, what I'm going to remember is the love I felt for my family and my friends, and whatever good I did for other people.

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.

This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

Your friends will determine the quality and direction of your life.

You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

You won't have nightmares any more when you grow up.' I solemnly believed this. He looked at me levelly, and said softly, 'When I grow up, I'm going to kill you.' His smile slowly came out then, like the sun in a winter cloud. In my memory, the sentence stretches, and seems to be said a hundred times not quite at once. That sentence has its own particular, special moment in time, which lasts until now.

I think now, so late, too late, of the neighbor's lawn service, using leaf blowers to release herbicide all over their lovely roses. How all of that invisible death didn't disappear into the air. How it coated us, all of us, and that holding pond. How it masked us from ourselves. How it shone through us and we didn't even know it.

The gun is a magic instrument, converting children to numbers.

There is always a charge, of one kind or another. *