John Steinbeck Quotes

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.

Ideas do not count for much unless they change the lives of men.

Either you make history or you will be history.

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

Your legacy makes a difference.

You don't get to choose what your legacy is.

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.

As the cause is, so the effect will be.

It's not what the vision is, it's what the vision does.

Success is one thing, impact is another

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

I have a great legacy, tarnished somewhat by the move.

If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Every person's every action has an effect.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

If you do nothing you get nothing.

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.

If we didn't do the tour, it would have been disastrous.

If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it even while you're having it.