Quotes about Impact
Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.
- Bill Gates
I want to put a ding in the universe.
- Steve Jobs
May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!
- Charles Spurgeon
When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.
- Seth Godin
In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference?
- Paul Allen
The fact is the planet is warming right now, and it is easier to blame it on some human activity rather than saying we should better understand the whole problem and recognize there are natural conditions that are impacting this, too.
- Hugh Ross
Frightening, isn't it? That something I decide today impacts future generations. Beyond my own flesh and blood.
- Rachel Hauck
In fifty years, no one will remember anything but your good works, the strength of your reign, and your love for your wife.
- Rachel Hauck
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson