Quotes about Impact
We are cruel enough without meaning to be.
— John Updike
Get on fire for God and men will come and see you burn.
— John Wesley
There is no limit to the good you may do.
— Ellen White
If we are sick, we impose a weary tax upon our friends, and unfit ourselves for discharging our duties to our families and to our neighbors.
— Ellen White
I should not want to live unless I could live to do some good to others.
— Ellen White
Three months is a lifetime in politics.
— Barack Obama
And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot.But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.
— Barack Obama
The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
— Barack Obama
Christians are not particularly gifted at knowing how we sound to others, especially in parts of the world where our voices are the loudest and most numerous.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
In a single sentence, Gandhi has given me a new way to live with the verse at the end of Matthew's Gospel, which Christians sometimes call the Great Commission. The way to make a disciple is to be one. If your life does not speak, your footnotes will have limited impact. Become worthy of the message, and join the spinning brigade. Why isn't that the Great Commission?
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work — that goes on, it adds up.
— Barbara Kingsolver
It's what you do that makes your soul.
— Barbara Kingsolver