World Impact Quotes

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Use your imaginations, and use your empathy. If you don't do that, you're limiting yourself as an artist, and you're hurting the world.

When he died he would not end. The world would end.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world itself.

Majority doesn't rule. One person can change the history of the world.

I would think, as an artist, it's inescapable that you'll be affected by the world around you.

Little changes can start to make a difference in the world.

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

This acting is going to leave my stain. Not just my mark, because you can wipe a mark off. But a stain: it's going to take a whole lot to get that out, and that's how I'm going to leave my stain on this world.

Chinese people need to be aware of their present and ask, 'What's our culture? What can we bring to the world?' I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together. We are still too near to his greatness,' (Leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) concluded, 'but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and powerful for the common understanding, just as the sun is too hot when its light beams directly on us.' (748)

You are responsible for the world that you live in.

For some reason, I always thought I was special. And for some reason, I always thought that I had a purpose in life: that I was supposed to contribute to the world.

I don't like what's going on in Iraq, naturally. I'm part of a large majority of people who don't, but I do not know the whole story. I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it's hard for me to discern. I don't like what it's doing to the world.

When you feel good you uplift your life, and you uplift the world.

I hope I just keep continuing to inspire a lot of people and trying to make a change in this world.

I want to squeeze every drop out of my potential as far as affecting the world around me.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

Solve a real problem and the world is yours.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

The right people don't care about a corner office - they care about the culture, if you're mission-driven, what you're going to do to make the world a better place.

Our actions in this world, and our ability to rise above the limits of our own self-interest, live on far beyond us and play their humble part in shaping a world of spirituality and peace.