Quotes about Impact

Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan---if even for a moment---and getting them to think, rage, cry, laugh, argue...Walk around the block, dazed...More than anything, we are remembered for our smiles; the ones we share with our closest and dearest, and the ones we bestow on a total stranger, who needed it RIGHT THEN, and God put you there to deliver. ---Carrie Louise Hamilton, dedication page

Our oneness...leaves DNA evidence that Jesus has been here.

The prosperity we enjoy shapes both the questions we ask and the answers we embrace.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other a horse still.

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.

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.

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.