#Impact Quotes

“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

“The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.”

“A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.”

“A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.”

“If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.”

“One idea lights a thousand candles.”

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

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

“A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.”

“Raise your words, not your voice.”

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”

“When lovers of life get ready to dance, the earth shakes and the sky trembles.”

“You can Light Up the Whole World by Giving without any Expectation Back.”

“Our thoughts are a field of energy cycles, a mind field, and just by our thoughts alone we impact not only ourselves but those around us as well.”

“You never know when one act, or one word of encouragement can change a life forever.”

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

“You never know when a helping hand will change another person's entire life.”

“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.”

“If you are somebody to anybody, you're somebody.”

“True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her.”

“What you do today can change all the tomorrow's of your life.”

“The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.”

“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.”

“Make today worth remembering.”

“Simple smile, a cheerful hello or a word of encouragement It's amazing what an impact you will have.”

“If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.”

“Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students.”

“It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”

“Movies are like writing history with lightning.”

“It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.”

“This is history written in lightning.”

“The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of thecivilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore.”

“What you think and do affects all other people.”

“You, a person with a vision, are like a pebble in a stream, moving ever outward to infinity, impacting on all who come into contact with the ripple.”

“You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.”

“Doing the little things can make a big difference.”

“Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.”

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

“There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.”

“Everybody's life is either rewarding or an example.”

“You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after a while.”

“I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.”

“Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.”

“Like a lot of us, sometimes I'm preaching to the choir, and sometimes my voice doesn't even get heard at all. Sometimes I think that what I'm writing now might not even have an impact for the next three or four generations. Sometimes I sit there and write, and I think, "It'll be two hundred years before they get what I'm writing about."”

“Make your goal to do a tremendous amount to improve your audience's lives.”

“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.”

“We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our conduct.”

“Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.”

“You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.”

“Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.”