Top 200 Impact Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Decisions determine destiny.”

— Thomas S. Monson

102. “There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.”

— Marianne Williamson

103. “Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”

— Tony Robbins

104. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

— Albert Schweitzer

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

— Henry Adams

106. “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”

— Sam Walton

107. “Tell your story with your whole heart.”

— Brené Brown

108. “Your input determines your outlook. Your outlook determines your output, and your output determines your future.”

— Zig Ziglar

109. “Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.”

— Brian Tracy

110. “The future is in your hands, the outcome is up to you.”

— Thomas S. Monson

111. “To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash.”

— Bill Nye

112. “Be intentional about adding value to every person you meet every day.”

— John C. Maxwell

113. “Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world.”

— Eduardo Galeano

114. “Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.”

— Robin S. Sharma

115. “One person of integrity can make a difference.”

— Elie Wiesel

116. “To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.”

— Elie Wiesel

117. “Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.”

— Mwai Kibaki

118. “Leadership is no longer about position – but passion. It’s no longer about image but impact. This is Leadership 2.0.”

— Robin S. Sharma

119. “A leader’s job is not to do the work for others; it’s to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.”

— Simon Sinek

120. “The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.”

— Malcolm X

121. “At the end of my life I want to be able to say I contributed more than I criticized.”

— Brené Brown

122. “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

123. “As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.”

— Marianne Williamson

124. “We never know how far reaching something we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow.”

— B. J. Palmer

125. “Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”

— Amy Poehler

126. “Gender equality must become a lived reality.”

— Michelle Bachelet

127. “What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.”

— Paulo Coelho

128. “Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”

— Barack Obama

129. “When you can’t get a miracle, you can still be a miracle for someone else.”

— Nick Vujicic

130. “Don’t allow negative people to steal your joy. When you lose your joy, you lose your strength.”

— Joel Osteen

131. “Our lives will depend upon the decisions which we make, for decisions determine destiny.”

— Thomas S. Monson

132. “Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But, life salutes you when you make others happy.”

— Charlie Chaplin

133. “You can’t just pretend that the things you watch, and the things you hear, and the places you go will not have an impact on your character. They will.”

— Nouman Ali Khan

134. “Encouragement is oxygen for the soul.”

— John C. Maxwell

135. “By changing nothing, nothing changes.”

— Tony Robbins

136. “Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.”

— Barack Obama

137. “Don’t use social media to impress people; use it to impact people.”

— Dave Willis

138. “I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!”

— William Booth

139. “Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”

— Maya Angelou

140. “Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.”

— Seth Godin

141. “You need to feel that you’re making a difference.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

142. “At any moment the decision you make can change the course of your life forever.”

— Tony Robbins

143. “Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.”

— Elie Wiesel

144. “Be Somebody who makes Everybody feel like a Somebody.”

— Robby Novak

145. “The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you’re very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.”

— Serena Williams

146. “You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.”

— Brian Tracy

147. “It’s your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.”

— Tony Robbins

148. “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”

— Orhan Pamuk

149. “Don’t settle for average. You were made for greatness.”

— Victoria Osteen

150. “If something stands between you and your success – move it. Never be denied.”

— Dwayne Johnson