Quotes about Impact
If the reader thinks he is done, now, and that this book has no moral to it, he is in error. The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are no account, go away from home, and then you will *have* to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them - if the people you go among suffer by the operation.
— Mark Twain
To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.
— Mark Twain
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
— Mark Twain
Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates a ripple effect.
— Mark Twain
And when it comes to beauty - and goodness too - she lays over them all. I hain't ever seen her since that time that I see her go out of that door; no, I hain't ever seen her since, but I reckon I've thought of her a many and a many a million times, and of her saying she would pray for me; and if ever I'd a thought it would do any good for me to pray for her, blamed if I wouldn't a done it or bust.
— Mark Twain
A Christian mother's first duty is to soil her child's mind, and she does not neglect it. Her lad grows up to be a missionary, and goes to the innocent savage and to the civilized Japanese, and soils their minds. Whereupon they adopt immodesty, they conceal their bodies, they stop bathing naked together.
— Mark Twain
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.