Unrecognized Impact Quotes

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.

I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realise it was my mother who gave me the most valuable instructions. I didn't understand or accept it at the time. She taught me to read and to pray - two things that have really stayed with me.

I'm a part of your life. You might not know it, but I am.

I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us.

People we've encountered at pivotal moments who profoundly influence our direction are not necessarily the people whose names everybody knows. More often, they are the people who say or do just the right thing, at the right time.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she had only been better and known better, her full nature spent itself in deeds which left no great name on the earth, but the effect of her being on those around her was incalculable. For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and on all those Dorotheas who life faithfully their hidden lives and rest in unvisited tombs. Middlemarch

We all have friends that we confide in and talk to about our relationships. At times, we do not recognize the effect that this has on our relationship. We take a lot of what other people have to say to heart, and rightly or wrongly, it makes our way into our relationships.

When you're part of history, you don't know it. You're just sort of living your life.

Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price you would have to pay for significance, would it be too great a price? To live a life of courage is not a guarantee of prestige or adulation. It only matters if you live and die fulfilling the mission you were born for.

If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either.

You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.

The ones who count are those persons who - though they may be of little renown - respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.

For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.

God knows that some of the greatest souls who have ever lived are those who will never appear in the chronicles of history. They are the blessed, humble souls who emulate the Savior’s example and spend the days of their lives doing good.