Quotes about Impact

We will do better in life if we desire to be useful rather than rich and famous.

If we are not living our lives to make someone else's better, than we are not really living at all.

Words can poison, words can heal. Words start and fight wars, but words make peace. Words lead men to the pinnacles of good And words can plunge men to the depths of evil. —Marguerite Schumann

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." I

We convince by our presence.

A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.

Deep down, our single greatest fear is to live a life of insignificance, to come to the end of our life and feel like we never really did anything that mattered. That is our greatest fear.

It takes a long time to ruin a life. It all starts with the stories we live by.

One hidden act of kindness is worth more than all the burial mounds of rhetoric, all the mumbling and fumbling and tardiness of Christians so preoccupied with cultivating their prayer lives that they cannot hear the anguished cry of the child in the barrio.

The relevance of the church is not found in its capitulation to culture but in its transformation of culture.

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?