Quotes about Impact

the best use of one's life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. Life's value is not its duration but its donation—not how long we live but how fully and how well.1

The real spiritual leader is focused on the service he and she can render to God and other people, not on the residuals and perks of high office or holy title. We must aim to put more into life than we take out.

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

There is a way to speak the truth in love, treating people with respect. But if being liked is the goal of the preacher, the speech is more likely to be grandstanding than world-shaking.

This might sound odd, but I believe that one of the biggest reasons there are so many negative perceptions of Christianity and the church is that Christians hang out with each other too much.

As you have learned through my own story, it is real people just doing their best to follow Jesus who end up making the biggest impact on the world.

You don't want to bash viewers over the head with a blunt message or lecture them - they'd soon get bored with that.

I ask myself all the time, 'How do I always go viral?'

Cash imposes a huge burden. We don't understand it, as it is not immediately visible. It is a huge burden on society.

There is a ripple effect to the gospel that's inevitable. There's a ripple effect to true grace. It doesn't lead us to only sit and contemplate what hap- pened to us. It leads us to proclaim what's happened to us—and what can happen to anybody and everybody on the planet.