Impact On The World Quotes:

If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: World, Want, Changing The World, Inspirations Being Yourself, Still Life With Woodpecker

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Incrementalism, Times Have Changed

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

- Martin Luther

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Impact On The World

If you want to change the world, help the women.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Want, World, Changing The World, Inspirations Being Yourself, Still Life With Woodpecker

If you want to change the world, make something beautiful.

- Charlie Peacock

source: William H. McRaven's Commencement Address at the University of Texas at Austin, news.utexas.edu. May 16, 2014.

topic: Beautiful, World, Want, Still Life With Woodpecker, Celebration Of Life

If you want to change the world, change yourself.

- Madonna Ciccone

topic: Change, World, Want, Inspirations Being Yourself, Still Life With Woodpecker

Echo of your thoughts has greater impact on the world than your actions.

- Amit Ray

topic: Impact, Echoes, World, Impact On The World

Focus on your dream and never quit. It is always too soon to quit. If you quit, you can't succeed. By achieving your dream you will be an inspiration to others. You will set the example and make an enormous impact on the world.

- Rudy Ruettiger

topic: Dream, Inspiration, Impact, Inspiration To Others, Chase Your Dreams

If you truly want to make an impact on the world, you can and you will.

- Christy Turlington

topic: Impact, World, Want, Impact On The World

Your impact on the world is significant whether or not you are aware of it, and even whether or not you desire it.

- Gary Zukav

topic: Impact, Desire, World, Impact On The World

If you want to have world peace - peace in your family, peace in your town and peace in your own bedroom - you simply begin with whatever creates peace within yourself. This vibration will go out from you in waves, and these waves have a very positive impact on the world.

- Christiane Northrup

source: FaceBook post by Dr. Christiane Northrup from Feb 25, 2010

topic: Law Of Attraction, Impact, World, Our Town, Positive Impact

Your life matters. You can't live through a day without making an impact on the world. And what's most important is to think about the impact of your actions on the world around you.

- Jane Goodall

topic: Thinking, Impact, Important, Impact On The World

It's actually a relatively small number of people that really are those risk takers, and a relatively small number of people that end up really having an impact on the world, and it doesn't take a lot of people. We said, 'Well, rather than just sit by and wait, or fold our tent and go do something else, let's keep at it. Maybe we can be the ones who can figure this out,' and eventually we were.

- Steve Case

topic: Numbers, Impact, People, Impact On The World

Any kind of food you eat is going to have an impact on the world. If you switch to tofu and get off meat, the soy bean is doing enormous damage in the Amazon and all throughout South America.

- Michael Pollan

source: Source: indianapublicmedia.org

topic: Impact, America, Meat, Soy, South America

I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.

- Alex Kapranos

topic: Impact, World, Want, Glasgow, Impact On The World

We can learn that reward comes in creation and re-creation, no just in the consumption of the world around us. Active participation in the process of creation is our right and our privilege. We can learn to measure the success of our ideas not by our bank accounts by their impact on the world.

- Tim Brown

topic: Creativity, Ideas, Impact, Active Participation, Impact On The World

I tend to think having an impact on the world is a lot more complicated than government.

- Joseph Gordon-Levitt

source: "Yes, Joseph Gordon-Levitt Will Marry You". Interview with Asawin Suebsaeng, www.motherjones.com. January 16, 2014.

topic: Thinking, Impact, Government, Impact On The World

A person's shadow stood for his legacy, his impact on the world. Some people cast hardly any shadow at all. Some cast long, deep shadows that endured for centuries.

- Rick Riordan

topic: Impact, Long, People, Long Deep, Impact On The World

Each person has the potential of making a positive impact on the world. It all depends on what you do with what you have. Success is not to be measured by the amount of money you possess or the position you attain but rather in how you use both. Position and money can be squandered or abused, but they can also be used to help others.

- Gary Chapman

topic: Helping Others, Impact, Use, Impact On The World

Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.

- Sandra Day O'Connor

topic: Inspiring, Graduation, Impact, Impact On The World

There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers, during his entire lifetime. This does not disprove his existence, but it certainly casts great doubt on the historicity of a man who was supposedly widely known to have made a great impact on the world. Someone should have noticed.

- Dan Barker

source: Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

topic: Jesus, Men, Impact, Impact On The World

You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting. You don't have to start from scratch to have a massive impact on the world. You have to have a good idea. You have to convince other people of those good ideas. And you have to push as quickly as possible.

- Jack Dorsey

topic: Impact, Ideas, People, Impact On The World

John was an extraordinary man. Our relationship has shaped much of my life. I have always loved him and never stopped loving him. That’s why I want to tell the real story of the real John – the infuriating, lovable, sometimes cruel, funny, talented and needy man who made such an impact on the world. John believed in the truth and he would want nothing less.

- Cynthia Lennon

topic: Real, Men, Impact, Real Story, Impact On The World

Your life has been intentionally designed by God to have a uniquely significant and eternal impact on the world around you.

- Tony Dungy

source: Tony Dungy (2011). “Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance”, p.196, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

topic: Impact, World, Significant, Impact On The World

We're thrilled to join Google. With their support, Nest will be even better placed to build simple, thoughtful devices that make life easier at home, and that have a positive impact on the world.

- Tony Fadell

topic: Home, Thoughtful, Simple, Impact On The World

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

- Gloria Steinem

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Thinking, Impact, World, Impact On The World

When I decided to be a musician I was hoping that it would be one of my contributions in having a positive impact on the world. That's always what I wanted to do.

- Goapele

source: Source: youknowigotsoul.com

topic: Impact, Would Be, World, Impact On The World

Some artists are definitely trying to do different styles. Some, not a lot. But even from what you've seen [of] Outkast, Kanye West, and Lil' Wayne, and different people expressing their way of evolving in hip-hop. In the evolution of hip-hop, they're doing different things. And you've seen hip-hop have more of a global presence and impact on the world.

- Will Ferrell

topic: Artist, Impact, People, Different Styles, Outkast

Causes was founded with the mission of empowering anyone to change the world. Our model is based upon the belief that everyone has the power to have an outsized impact on the world by banding together with other like-minded individuals, taking direct action, and inspiring their friends and their friends' friends to join in.

- Joe Greene

source: "New Facebook Changes Will Help You Change the World" by Joe Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2011.

topic: Impact, Empowering, Together, Banding Together, Impact On The World

Today’s generation of young people holds more power than any generation before it to make a positive impact on the world.

- William J. Clinton

source: "Clinton’s Final Four" by Natalie Pace, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2011.

topic: Impact, People, Generations, Positive Impact, Today's Generation

It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible - incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the world, and that in exchange I was privileged to watch it unawares.

- Marilynne Robinson

source: "Housekeeping". Book by Marilynne Robinson, 1980.

topic: Impact, Comfort, Watches, Impact On The World

My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world.

- Elon Musk

topic: Inspirational, Motivation, Impact, Impact On The World