Quotes About Impact

This is the thought that should be uppermost on your mind in all you do for your children. In every step you take about them, in every plan, and scheme, and arrangement that concerns them, do not leave out that mighty question, How will this affect their souls?

Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever.

Recollection could be more powerful and more perilous than experience itself.

A young girl, a frailty, simple and true, who had been unable to stand up from the piano and had had to be carried; a girl half his age; a girl who could not shoot a gun, had never been in an oyster house, atop a tower, or under the wharves; a girl hotter always than noon in August; a girl who knew nothing; had thrown him so hard that he would be out of breath forever.

Small scenes can be so beautiful that they change a man forever.

We now know—because it has been scientifically proven—that sugar is more powerfully addictive than alcohol, cocaine, or even heroin (and if you're thinking about going for diet soda instead, take note: Artificial sweeteners may be more addictive than regular sugar).

we went from not a single state having an obesity rate over 20 percent to not a single state having an obesity rate under 20 percent

The big culprit is methane gas, which, although it does not get as much attention as carbon dioxide, is more than twenty times as destructive in terms of climate change.

New black heroes were made and old ones dropped every day.

Wars never end warfare, they lay the groundwork for the next.

the four great inventions—paper, compass, gunpowder, and printing

But as soon as paper started to be made from trees, concern shifted to the destruction of the forests.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. —MARSHALL MCLUHAN AND QUENTIN FIORE, The Medium Is the Massage, 1967

Out time has come to change the world, one person at a time

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, Or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, But because it never forgot what it could do. —NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I was recently in San Francisco

The church is meant to lead the world in hearing God's voice and shaping culture.

In your position as leader, your actions are amplified; it's as if you are talking through a bullhorn every time you communicate with your employees. They hear your criticism more loudly than you mean it, and they hear your praise and thanks more loudly than it sounds to you. Use your bullhorn wisely.

The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important. ABRAHAM MASLOW

No man can become rich without himself enriching others. —ANDREW CARNEGIE

Genuine, authentic leadership infuses meaning into your life, because you know that your efforts count and that you are serving the needs of others as well as your own.

The people who change the world around them rarely act from a sense of obligation. In fact, the people who act as leaders almost always act from a sense of incredible opportunity. They don't interact with the world around them because they have to. They do so because they want to.

The test of leadership is, is anything or anyone better because of you?

saying it gets warmer or colder by a few tenths of a degree, should be taken as evidence that the end of the world is coming.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.