Quotes about Impact
Apart from a thin film of life at the very surface of the Earth, an occasional intrepid spacecraft, and some radio static, our impact on the Universe is nil. It knows nothing of us.
— Carl Sagan
You can't just check out and think it will all be over. It won't be over for anyone who loves you. You'll only leave them to run after the pieces that scatter in the angry wind. You'll leave them desperately trying to solve the problems you wouldn't . . . all while plugging their own wounds. Even if you're like me, single without children, you could impact generations. Is quick relief worth it?
— Terri Blackstock
Words and thoughts concerning compassionate action that are not put into practice are like beautiful flowers that are colorful but have no fragrance.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
When you abstain from eating and drinking animal products, fewer animals are slaughtered, and you contribute less to climate degradation.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Every Christian is important - important to God, to the world, and to the kingdom.
— Mother Angelica
Labour's disastrous legacy and the Conservative success did not happen by accident: it was about the choices each party made, choices that impact on everyone.
— Esther McVey
Inquest juries frequently linked suicide to cheap literature. When a twelve-year-old servant boy hanged himself in Brighton in 1892, the jury delivered a verdict of 'suicide during temporary insanity, induced by reading trashy novels'. When a twenty-one-year-old farm labourer in Warwickshire shot himself in the head in 1894, the coroner suggested that the fifty penny dreadfuls found in his room had had 'an unhinging and mesmeric effect' upon his mind.
— Kate Summerscale
Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead.
— G Campbell Morgan
Here's what I've come to terms with in regard to mission: My first goal in life isn't to defend me. What someone thinks about me won't impact their future spiritual destiny.
— Gary Thomas
I ache for the day when people make such wise marital choices that they can pray through where to live to make the most significant impact for Christ instead of praying that they could merely be able to exist in the same house without yelling and fighting.
— Gary Thomas
It's not enough to survive, a lifelong love is all about thriving in a ministry-minded marriage that impacts others.
— Gary Thomas
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
— Brigham Young