Quotes About Impact

Sometimes thanking someone is more important to the person giving the thanks than the one who receives it.

One man armed with the right word may do what an army of swordsmen cannot.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world?

Few things have such sharp edges as the careless words of a boy.

Just tell me. Do I break the future? -Oh, child. We all do. That is both the danger and the hope of life. That each of us changes the world, every day.

Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path.

A small pebble can turn a wheel out of its path, he told me, but warned me that it was seldom a pleasant experience for the pebble.

I don't need to be a hero, Fool. I'd settle for feeling that what I did every day had significance to someone besides myself." "p. 144 Fitz to the Fool

Uma pedrinha pode fazer sair uma roda do seu caminho, disse-me ele, mas avisou-me que a experiência raramente era agradável para a pedrinha.

And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid.

Why had Althea's crazed words affected Etta like this? Then the answer came to him: she was pregnant. Women always behaved strangely when they were pregnant.

Um homem armado com a palavra certa pode fazer o que um exército de espadachins não pode.

Humans lived and died in a ridiculously short amount of time. Perhaps that was why they made so much noise when they were alive. Perhaps it was the only way they could convince one another of their significance.

As it was with dragons, so it is with queens. A careless word or deed could have severe consequences. Inside

I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.

A girl did not need to hit to hurt someone.

When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.

She fell silent, overcome at what humans, in their ignorance, had done.

My fate was a runaway horse, dragging destruction like a broken cart through so many lives.

Se tudo o que eu tivesse feito na vida fosse ter nascido e ser descoberto, ainda assim teria deixado uma marca em toda aquela terra, para todo sempre. Cresci sem pai nem mãe, numa corte onde todos me conheciam como um divisor de águas. E um divisor de águas eu me tornei.

we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.

Jsme tady, Fitzi, ty a já, abychom zmÄ›nili budoucnost svÄ›ta. Abychom hmátli a podrželi na místÄ› ten malinký oblázek, který by mohl uvolnit padající balvany.

Is there anything more chilling than looking at a righteous fifteen-year-old and realizing he has the power to unravel your entire life?

And somehow by not speaking out on his own behalf, he made it impossible for anyone else to object.