Quotes About Impact

Let the world change you and you can change the world

There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shriveling up the reality in which one is lodged.

The tragedy of a life that is never fully lived is not simply the loss of that one life. The tragedy is the endless number of lives that would have been forever changed if we had chosen to live differently.

Unfortunately, the people who have the greatest influence in our lives rarely understand the power of their words to shape who we become. They never fully understand that what informs us forms us. Words spoken into a soul are like the hands of a potter pressed against wet clay.

Though we may create many beautiful works of art, the most important works of art to which we will ever give ourselves are the lives we live.

According to Scripture, everything is connected, and every action has at least some effect on the whole.

You need to act like your life depends on it, because it's never just your life involved. You need to never settle for less because the world desperately needs everything you can bring to the table.

If you want to change the world, start by making small changes to your world.

Sometimes we pray; sometimes we are the answers to prayer. You become the answer to prayer when you act as though your life depends on it. Because it does. And so do the lives of everyone your life touches.

Nobody really knows which is happening when the teacher closes the door. At worst, mediocrity. At best, miracles.

Thirty-one children. Thirty-one chances. Thirty-one futures, our futures. It's an almost psychotic feeling, believing that part of their lives belongs to me.

The difference between a beginning teacher and an experienced one is that the beginning teacher asks, How am I doing? and the experienced teacher asks, How are the children doing?

When a great tree came down, the report could be heard for miles, a shifting crescendo of rustling and snapping as the trunk yanked away the limbs around it, culminating finally in a muffled thud like a sledgehammer striking moss.

he was blindly ignorant of history and therefore did not fear his role in it

There are only two kinds of Shakespeare productions; ones that change your life, and ones that suck shit. That's it. Because if it doesn't change the audience's life... the production has failed.

THE quality of your life will, to a large extent, be decided by with whom you elect to spend your time.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

It might be if he had not appeared the way he did appear that day she would never have looked so closely at him, but the time people come makes a difference.

The future belongs, not to those who have the most, but to those who do the most with what they have.

Hãy nói n?u b?n có nh?ng l?i l? m?nh hÆ¡n. N?u không, hãy im l?ng.' (_Euripide_)

A rock is harder than a feather, you can talk and jabber and make exceptions, but in the end, if you have to choose which one is gonna hit you on the head, you'll choose the feather every single time.

it sometimes seems to me the entire postmodern assault on the concept of truth has been staged to avoid just this conclusion: some cultures are simply more productive than others

For, as I told you, Good deeds bear their own fruit!

The advantage of possessing a great empire is not to be able to do the evil that one desires, but to do all the good that one possibly can.