Quotes About Impact

Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.

Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

He left the name at which the world grew pale,To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

Cultural assertion follows material success; hard power generates soft power.

The West is the only civilization which has substantial interests in every other civilization or region and has the ability to affect the politics, economics, and security of every other civilization or region.

If the situation of a technological society was such that there could be no direct relation between a man's work and his modus vivendi, other than money, at least he must feel that he is directly changing things by his work, shaping things, making things that weren't there before, moving things from one place to another. He must exert energy in his work and see these changes occur with his own eyes. Otherwise he would feel his life was futile.

Removing a pebble is sometimes enough to change a destiny.

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

you have a meaningful contribution to make to the world….You have a role to play that no one else on the planet could fill. The special contribution you came to make is your life's work. When you are doing that work, you are following your higher path, and your life will be filled with increasing joy, abundance, and well-being.

My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.

It's not the length of time we knew someone that makes them so special. It's what they brought into our lives.

One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.

We think legacy is like a balloon being inflated and so we expect to see the results. Truthfully, legacy is more like the air going into the balloon, whether we witness the outcome or not, lives are being touched.

These people are called the "invisible second patients.

As far and wide the vernal breeze Sweet odours waft from blooming trees, So, too, the grateful savour spreads To distant lands of virtuous deeds.

If you remain unaffected by worldly attractions and intimidations, you will definitely command a tremendous influence on the world. Anyone, who doubts this, is a fool and a person of low intellect.

sanokaa minun sanoneen: meistä puhutaan kauan

Someone will remember us, even in another time.