Impact on Others Quotes

Love leaves legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.

Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this “something” cannot be seen or heard or numbered or scientifically detected or counted. It’s what we leave in the minds of other people and what they leave in ours. Memory. The census doesn’t count it. Nothing counts without it.

What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.

The measure of a man is in the lives he’s touched.

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

Sometimes I go, “What am I doing with my life?” But then I get letters from young women, or people come up to me, and they say, “You’ve made such a difference to my confidence.” And that is a good thing. I should read more fan mail though. I’m crap at responding.

A life isn't significant except for its impact on others' lives.

Every choice that we makes creates consequences, consequences in the lives of others and we experience them in ourselves, those same consequences, every choice that we make. And by the way the choices that you might think are the most important are not always the most important.

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

Success is about us. Significance is about others.

Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to know that we're acceptable, that our being alive somehow makes a difference in the lives of others.

A lot of people believe they are successful because they have everything they want. They have added value to themselves. But I believe significance comes when you add value to others and you can't have true success without significance.

I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. I don't think I'd want it - it's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.

I don't think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

It's easy to explain away evil. We have a free choice, and our greatest blessing is also our greatest curse, because I don't always make good choices. Other people make bad choices. I make bad choices. And sometimes we hurt other people. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.

Success cannot be measured in wealth, fame or power, but by whether you have made a positive difference for others.

The goal of life is not to have our lives mean something to ourselves. The goal of life is to have our lives mean something to others.

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade.

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion. Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.

How many people you bless is how you measure success

Your life is about everyone whose life you touch, and it is about the way in which you touch them.