Quotes about Impact

Come out into the world about you, be it either wide or limited. Sympathize, not in thought only, but in action, with all about you. Make yourself known and felt for something that would be loved and missed, in twenty thousand little ways, if you were to die; then your life will be a happy one, believe me.

People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received

Everything in our lives, whether of good or evil, affects us most by contrast

If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?

It's in vain, Trot, to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

What constitutes a life well spent, anyway? Love and admiration from your fellow men is all that any one can ask.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

The gospel is only Good News if it gets there in time.

Jesus did not say that the whole world should go to church, but He did say that the church should go to the whole world.