Lasting Effect Quotes

I grew up Catholic, and when you've grown up, and these belief systems have been presented to you at a young, impressionable age, I don't know that you can shake them. Even if your rational mind tells you something else, sometimes they're so deeply ingrained that they are with you for the rest of your life.

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

I will never, ever forget the electricity I felt the first time I listened to the 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - and many times since.

Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever.

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

In order to join vigorously in the moral work of the world I must believe that somehow the best I can accomplish will endure, will leave its trace on things, will aid the final consummation.

Whatever you learn will never go waste. It will be beneficial for me in future.

I left my mark on that man.

It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.

Brothers, what we do in life........echoes in eternity.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

I'm going to imprint myself on everything in this world.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things.And I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this Earth. It's not going to be, 'It was a great platform. It was great to win the Super Bowl,' but really and truly what you're going to leave on this Earth is the influence on others.

A slug can leave but there's always a slimy trail behind him.

Meetings don't have to be endless to be eternal.

The automobile crash was... devastating in ways that I still cannot really bear to think about... It took me many years to recover. In some ways, I never have.

It's hard to define somebody by one movie. I mean, unfortunately, my entire life was basically made by Billy Elliot. It was kind of created by that one catalytic moment.

When you think about Walt [Disney]'s life, I don't know of anybody on Earth over the last hundred years who has touched as many people as he did. He's touched every nation on Earth.

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.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy – a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others.

Leaving a legacy behind is huge.