Quotes About Impact

It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.

If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music ... Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

What matters is not how long you live…but how you live.

One aspect of the civil rights struggle that receives little attention is the contribution it makes to the whole society. The Negro winning in rights for himself produces substantial benefits for the nation.

most people, and Christians in particular, are thermometers that record or register the temperature of majority opinion, not thermostats that transform and regulate the temperature of society.

Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively

Everybody can be great because anybody can serve.

After we've discovered what God called us to do, after we've discovered our life's work, we should set out to do that work so well that the living, the dead, or the unborn couldn't do it any better.

There are those who write history. There are those who make history. There are those who experience history.

It is not enough for the church to be active in the realm of ideas; it must move out to the arena of social action.

No, not 'well'! Christ no, not 'well'. 'Well'...dot dot dot...'she's'...dot dot dot...'dead'. Dot.

It isn't about being or not being dead. It's about what you leave behind.

We were two years in the making and ten minutes in the destroying.

Everything you do today impacts the next day as well as the future.

When she died, what would matter except that she loved and was loved in return?

I'm just saying there's no excuse for a man to hit a woman. None. Period. But verbal beatings can be worse. More insidious, in that the scars aren't visible. Words can be killers.

He offered his arm and she took it. And the world was the same place. And forever different.

Negativity could be frighteningly contagious.