Positive Impact Quotes

Be a fountain, not a drain.

What I strive for is that everywhere I go, I leave a positive impact.

Every video I make, I want to make sure that it’s doing something entertaining or hopefully inspiring or maybe teaching somebody something or sharing my mistakes so that they can learn from them or anything that will make a positive impact in the world.

When I decided to be a musician I was hoping that it would be one of my contributions in having a positive impact on the world. That’s always what I wanted to do.

There’s nothing better than having a positive impact on kids.

I think, when a manager has been at a club for more than 20 years, he can only have a positive impact.

That’s what I try to base my life on is being a positive impact for the community… and everything I put my hands on.

I’m hoping that these next 20 years will show what we did 20 years ago in sequencing the first human genome, was the beginning of the health revolution that will have more positive impact in people’s lives than any other health event in history.

I didn’t have that growing up as a kid, people who gave back to the community and things like that. It was a dream of mine when I made it to always give back and be a positive impact and great role model.

I wasn’t a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it’s had such a positive impact on my life that I decided to try to help others as well.

Strong automotive and enterprise sales and the positive impact of our expanded license agreement with Microsoft more than offset the loss of revenue from the former devices and services business.

Fighting malaria not only has a positive impact on improving health services in developing countries, it also increases their economic growth and productivity.

We invest in things like the future, like our children, like education. In other words, we invest in things that we understand we will not see an immediate return of investment but everybody knows it will have a positive impact and you can easily measure it over the course of time. Your why is exactly the same thing.

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

For me, I just want to be a role model, put a positive impact on the kids that are watching the sport, that want to be a part of the sport, and leave a good everlasting impact on the sport, continue my legacy down the road.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I’m continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.

Even if only a few individuals try to create mental peace and happiness within themselves, and act responsibly and kind-heartedly towards others, they will have a positive influence in their community.

I wanna have a positive impact and bring in artists on the come-up. It gets me hyped!

There are a lot of ways to make a positive impact on the community without necessarily being a politician.

The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.

Just like it’s not healthy to think overly negative thoughts, exaggeratedly positive thoughts can be equally detrimental. If you overestimate how much of a positive impact a particular change will have on your life, you may end up feeling disappointed when reality doesn’t live up to your fantasy.

As a vegan body-builder I want to show others that it is possible to gain significant muscle and strength on a vegan diet and I want to inspire others to follow this lifestyle. I love being vegan and knowing that I am having a positive impact on our society.

Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

Never waste a good crisis…Don’t waste it when it can have a very positive impact on climate change and energy security.

If you want to have world peace – peace in your family, peace in your town and peace in your own bedroom – you simply begin with whatever creates peace within yourself. This vibration will go out from you in waves, and these waves have a very positive impact on the world.

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.

If being complicit is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then I’m complicit.

I just do not hang around anybody that I don’t want to be with. Period. For me, that’s been a blessing, and I can stay positive. I hang around people who are happy, who are growing, who want to learn, who don’t mind saying sorry or thank you… and [are] having a fun time.

Let’s find those areas where modest and reasonable tax cuts will have the biggest positive impact on our economy, and which will improve the lives of those who need it most: working families, retirees, and small business owners.

Every now and then I love to invest in a company that may not set the world on fire, but has the chance to establish itself, create jobs and have a positive impact.

Federal rules and regulations too often become seemingly insurmountable obstacles to simple changes that can have a positive impact.

When you grow up, as I have, in the shadow of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and others, success is defined as the total global transformation of a market. To achieve that, you need low prices and an attractive offering. It’s about trying to make a positive impact on a big scale.

I certainly like to go out and seek out interesting challenges, and I try to highlight a very worthwhile cause and make a positive impact along the way.

I’m confident that the commitment of the co-chairs of the Ferguson Commission – along with the work of other local leaders and the Missouri General Assembly – will have a very positive impact as this community works to move forward.

E-Motion will have a very positive impact on the evolution of human consciousness

When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact upon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live.

No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.

The fact that our message and my lyrics can have a positive impact on someone’s life is really astounding. It definitely makes me appreciate what I do even more because I’m not just doing it for self-gain, I’m doing it to help others.

You were created to make somebody else’s life better. Somebody needs your smile. They need your love, your encouragement & your gifts.

It is pretty damn obvious that there are positive impacts of climate change, even though we are not always allowed to talk about them.

A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society.

If we can produce more ethanol and bio-diesel to help fuel our vehicles, we will create jobs, boost local economies and produce cleaner burning fuels. This will keep dollars here at home where they can have a positive impact on our economy.

There’s a good amount of research out there that shows generous parental leave policies have a significant positive impact on employee retention and morale.

I believe the continually advancing Information Revolution will lend us the wisdom and strength to address humanity’s previously unsolvable problems and help us make a positive impact on all of society.

When you’re put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you’re able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that’s a beautiful thing.

I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

Your positive impact on the generations to come will be directly related to the ministry you have in that little place called home.

I retire from competition with great pride at having had a positive impact on my sport. I intend to keep training and practicing martial arts for as long as I live, and I look forward to watching the new generation of champions carry our sport into the future.

Climate change is not an excuse for the EPA to ignore the bounds of law and issue illegal regulations that will cost jobs, shutter industries, and have little to no positive impact on the environment.

Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact

If you want to make a positive impact, no matter how far-reaching, start at home. Treat your family members like treasures.

There will be a huge, huge positive impact for society when driverless cars become a thing.

I felt Facebook had a lot of what I appreciated about government – being around a collection of really bright, thoughtful people motivated to have a positive impact.

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

We have many companies, I say pouring back into America. I think that’s going to have a huge, positive impact on race relations. You know why? It’s jobs. What people want now, they want jobs. They want great jobs with good pay. And when they have that, you watch how race relations will be.

Today’s investors want to see a positive impact on society and the environment as well as solid financial returns.

The mistake we made in the 1990s was overestimating the potential of NAFTA’s positive impact.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I think if we continue to create jobs at levels that I’m creating jobs, I think that’s going to have a tremendous impact – positive impact – on race relations.

In many ways, I think the WNBA is changing the way America views women and is having a positive impact on the way America views professional athletes. We’re showing the world what women can be as athletes and what athletes can be as citizens.

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact? If you don’t have a great idea of your own, there are plenty of great teams that need you – unknown startups and established teams in giant companies alike.

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant – in a word, real.

Governor Sanders showed true leadership and character by supporting civil rights for all during a time when many were not, His lasting positive impact on our state will be felt by many future generations of Georgians.

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don’t hear enough about them or their needs.

A holistic solution to income inequality is going to take a lot of work, but every time you prove that one of the strands is achievable and that it has a positive impact on people’s lives you take another step towards proving the bigger theory of the case.

I would like to think that I will be remembered as someone who had some positive impact on the sociosexual values of his time. And I think I’m secure and happy in that.

Keep the weeds of negative influence from your life. ‘Farm’ the seeds of constructive influence.

It’s never clear to me why it’s so hard for people to say sorry. It’s a simple word, just two syllables and its positive impact is enormous.

It’s nice to have a positive impact on someone’s else’s life, and I feel like with my actions that I’ve had a positive impact on someone’s else’s life.

Exceptional businesses sustain bottom-line results, which they invest to create meaningful, positive impact for their stakeholders.

This is a huge thing if you are going to have a positive impact on your spouse. You have to not only realize this, but you have to practice this.

Laurence Olivier said if you have ambition to be a serious classical actor, you must be as fit as an athlete. For me, the breakthrough was going to live in California. I exercised. I drank less. It was one of the things about California that had a positive impact on me.

Our intention is that people use MakerBots to have a positive impact on the world.

A positive impact stems from our admission that we were wrong or our thinking was wrong. ‘I’m wrong’ are two little words that can help improve our own positive attitude.

It is really important that we get more women doing exercise and being active, and those that have taken up boxing or boxing training will definitely find that it has a really positive impact on their health, fitness and well-being.

I wasn’t aware of the impact that I had made on the lives of Aboriginal people until I did a bit of travelling and visited various communities throughout Victoria. To see the way that my people looked at me and to know that I made a difference to them was an honour.

And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

I want to do what I love, which is act, and hopefully through that, leave a positive impact somehow, someway, with somebody.

The only way I can have a positive impact on this football team is for me to dedicate myself to doing my job.

When we were creating Warby Parker, for us it was about having a positive impact on the world and having a strong social mission.

Each of us can play a role in eradicating hunger in our communities, and together with Feeding Wisconsin we look forward to raising awareness and having a positive impact on the work to help this important cause.

More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American’s are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation’s economy.

If your desire is to be successful or to make a positive impact on your world, you need to become a person of influence.

Leaders are less interested in their position and more interested in their positive impact on others.

A focus on regulatory overreach, things that the benefit doesn’t outweigh the cost, is probably the single greatest opportunity we have for having a positive impact on job creation.

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines … Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business.

No matter how dysfunctional we are, we can still have a positive impact on each other’s lives.

With Fresh Healthy Vending growing by the day, my role is ever-evolving, just as the company is, and I intend to take on any necessary responsibilities in order to make a positive impact and spread a message we all believe in so strongly.

I wish BTS could set up a model for k-pop with the best music and content so we have a positive impact on the U.S. music scene.

In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact?

People resisted having weapons on airplanes, but I oversaw the federal air marshals. It’s a deterrent. No one sees that weapon, but they are protected on that airplane, and it’s a huge positive impact on safety.

To the extent that we can shine a light on the bad things being done, that’s going to have a positive impact.

Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact.