Quotes About Impact

When you compare the first three crashes of the 21st century to the giant crash of 1929, you gain a perspective of how truly "giant" the first three crashes of this century were.

It was a singular point of view that made all the difference over a lifetime.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world." ? Vladimir Ilich Lenin

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes." ? Joseph Stalin

Seria correcto decir que el viento caminaba? No era una figura ni tenia piernas. Yo no lo veia, sólo lo percibia gracias a la sensación, es decir lo notaba y lo dejaba actuar sobre mi. El se alejaba para soplar de nuevo.

But in 1982 (one year before Barack graduated), Barack Obama, Sr., died in a car accident. He

No action is ever lost - nothing we do is without result. It's obvious, of course, but how many people ever really believe it, or act as if it were so?

My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.

I liked the company of most of my colleagues, who were about equally divided among good men who were good teachers, awful men who were awful teachers, and the grotesques and misfits who drift into teaching and are so often the most educative influences a boy meets in school. If a boy can't have a good teacher, give him a psychological cripple or an exotic failure to cope with; don't just give him a bad, dull teacher.

Haven't you ever heard of the 1918 flu pandemic? It killed more people than World War One and World War Two combined.

What we say, my child, has an impact on those around us. Words can spread darkness and hate or shed light and love. Don't misuse them, Daphne.

Tiny fists can hurt quite a lot when they hit you in the face.

Her words flew like butterflies through the vibrant air of the hall; and the company was quiet, as if watching them.

And we might have been less bullying out-of-doors if he had been less bullying indoors.

Total casualties on the Somme, killed, wounded and missing, come to some 1,300,000 men, British, French and German. The British share in this total includes the losses incurred by the Empire and Commonwealth troops, from Australia, Canada, India, South Africa and New Zealand, and amounts to some 400,000 men. The French lost 200,000 men on the Somme, to add to the more serious losses of Verdun. German losses on the Somme came to more than 600,000 men, killed

Many workers are now searching for employers with a mission they can believe in. Whether it is to fight for a political cause, to safeguard the environment, or to help other people overcome life's problems, they select jobs and employers because they feel they can make an important difference by working there.

Words affect the mind in a pronounced way. Whether they are spoken or written, they are powerful influences.

when you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die the world cries while you rejoice." We live in an age when we have forgotten what life is all about.

The sight of an achievement is the greatest gift a human being could offer others. —AYN RAND

Son, when you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die the world cries while you rejoice.

for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It's a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

the quality of your life will come down to the quality of your contribution.

Mother Teresa said it so well: 'If everyone would sweep their own doorstep, the whole world will be clean.

One of the lessons I have learned in my own life is that if you don't act on life, life has a habit of acting on you.