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
— Carol Burnett
Our oneness...leaves DNA evidence that Jesus has been here.
— Carolyn Custis James
The prosperity we enjoy shapes both the questions we ask and the answers we embrace.
— Carolyn Custis James
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.
— George W. Bush
Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".
— George Weigel
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other a horse still.
— Samuel Johnson
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