Quotes about Impact
It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
— Anonymous
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
— George Eliot
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.
— Henry David Thoreau
Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.
— Mother Teresa
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack!
— Winston Churchill
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
— George Eliot
Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.
— Albert Schweitzer
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
— Albert Camus
Think of that — what little things change the world's history...
— Mark Twain