Quotes About Impact

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?

When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die.

The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.

Like having a great idea, life comes at you fast. It hits you and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. In a way, it's a lot like...lightning.

There's no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i'm hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people's eyes.

If you just change one person's life, you feel like you've done something. But if you can change a whole lot of them and get them looking at themselves differently, it's amazing.

All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

when michael jackson died i wonder if his life flashed before him and if it did, i wonder if he thought 'who's that little black kid singing my songs?!'

Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.

What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of each human life?

There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

Therefore our choices need to be made carefully. Every single thing that one of us thinks says or does, impacts all the rest of humanity on one level or another.

Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.

Living life is a choice. Making a difference in someone else's isn't.

Your life is a gift and how you respond to it - what you do with it matters. That's where I start.

A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.

The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.

You know every stage of your life has an impact on you.