Impact Quotes

Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society.

Is it possible that love should of a sudden take such a hold?

Good leaders set vision, missions, and goals. Great leaders inspire every follower at every level to internalize their purpose, and to understand that their purpose goes far beyond the mere details of their job. When everyone is united in purpose, a positive purpose that serves not only the organization but also, hopefully, the world beyond it, you have a winning team.

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

Life can be much broader. You can embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

In the midday sun, a bright light will be barely noticed. Yet in the darkest night, even the smallest light can make an enormous difference.

What you give to help others, builds them up enough that they are able to give to others. It's a cycle that can continue on long after you're dead and gone.

But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.

Everyone has the power to impact the outcome of his life. The way to do it is to focus on today. . . It is too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow.

For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.

We tried in our simple way to lead our life in a manner that may make a difference to those of others.

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.

So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else" (20).

I never needed Panavision and stereophonic sound to woo the world. I did it in black and white on a screen the size of a postage stamp. Honey, that's talent.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.

I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.

I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.

I think we impress people by our success, but I think we impact them by our failures.

We've got to make the small things unforgettable.

If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can show somebody he's traveling wrong, then my living will not be in vain.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

Now more than ever I am aware that a person's significant birthdays can either mark the passage of time, or they can mark changes they've made in their lives to reach their potential and become the person they were created to be. With each passing year, I want to make good choices that make me a better person, help me become a better leader, and make a positive impact on others.

Everything costs and costs the earth.

Each day will be triumphant only when your smiles bring forth smiles from others.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.

The difference between where you are today and where you'll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you've read.

One person can and does make a difference.

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

But I hope to maintain my credibility after I stop playing. Because, yes of course, now I play and I score goals and children all over are mad about me. Not just poor children - all children. We can make them really happy by the way we play, though I have to say that it's the poor ones that I think of most, the ones who can't come and watch the games at the stadium. We mean so much to them. That's why I'm so committed to this work. Later, after you've stopped playing, it's harder to have the same impact. But I will give it a go. I want to continue doing this kind of work for ever.

I'm going to make my life everyday about being a blessing in people's lives. If I'm a blessing to people's lives, then there will be nothing to worry about again.

Our job in life is to make a positive difference, not prove we're right.

I will tell you one other thing about money: when you don't have it, it sure as hell affects the quality of people's health, and their relationships. And paper money isn't even real today, right? It's all really ones and zeros in computers today. But at the same time, if you don't have it, it certainly affects the quality of your life.

Suffering saints are living seed.

Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.

Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

When you encourage others, you, in the process, are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.

When something feels really big, too big to handle, just go very small. Just go real small, just look at the person next to you and look in their eyes and meet the person next to you, find out their name, change one person's life and make one call, write one letter, give one dollar. Whatever small thing feels like what you can do - it changes the course of the ship and that is all it is.

Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.

Everybody's life is either rewarding or an example.

The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees

Climate change is one of the issues I worry most about because its impacts are enormous. But they're gradual, they're not immediate.

The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.

History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.

Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

You may not remember what a person said to you, you may not remember what a person did to you, but you will never forget how a person made you feel!

Better to illuminate than merely to shine.

A good runner leaves no footprints.

What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.

I get letters from [people getting insurance] right now. "You saved my child's life." "I did not have to sell my home when my wife got sick." And that is what, as a policy maker, I'm trying to achieve during the short period of time that I'm here.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.