Quotes About Impact

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

You are the single biggest influence in your life.

There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape who I am.

It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

You cannot help the world by focusing on the negative things. As you focus on the world's negative events, you not only add to them, but you also bring more negative things into your own life.

Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy."

Every risk is worth taking as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life.

If you aren't serving, you're just existing, because life is meant for ministry.

To change your world, you must change your words. It's the rudder (James 3:4-5) of your life.

My God, what have we done?

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

You don't have to wait till your party's in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world.

I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives business.

I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.

Life is short. Be of use.

To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?

I'd like to hear them be a bit more creative, though. I've heard 'you're a sieve, you stink' my whole life and you can tell it's obviously affected me.

I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.

The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.

Miracles happen in silence... lesser important things create world headlines.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

If you're studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.

You never know which people will affect your life.

For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that's OK; that's a good thing.