Legacy
148 quotes: 11 by Keith Craft, 137 from other voices.
Keith Craft on Legacy
- A father who lives intentionally creates advantages that money cannot buy.
- Strong families are built when fathers think beyond themselves and lead beyond their lifetime.
- The decisions you make today as a father, will have consequences for generations.
- When you identify what matters most, you potentially can have a life that most matters generationally.
- Being planted in the house of the Lord will cause you to grow in grace (the power of God to do things God’s way), produce fruit, prosper in old age, and become a living memorial that the promises of God come to pass for you and those who are a part of your legacy.
- The motivation to do 'greater works' is not self-seeking. It is born out of a heart to be a follower of Jesus and to fulfill His mission for us on earth by being His heart, hands, and feet to all mankind.
- Your legacy is not about you...Your legacy is what happens BECAUSE OF YOU!
- The greatest legacy a father can leave his children is that he put God first with his time, his talent and his treasure.
- Live the legacy you want to leave!
- God gave us a distinct fingerprint to make a distinct imprint.
- What matters most to you is what you will 'scatter' most to others.
Other voices on Legacy
- A good coach can change a game. A great coach can change a life.
- A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.
- A good name is like precious ointment; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.
- A great integrity makes us immortal; an admiration, a deep love, a strong will, arms us above fear.
- A life isn't significant except for its impact on others' lives.
- A life spent worthily should be measured by deeds, not years.
- A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
- A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.
- A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.
- A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
- After climbing the ladder, you have a choice — kick it away, or hold it so the next generation can climb up.
- All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
- All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it. Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
- An industrious and virtuous education of children is a better inheritance for them than a great estate.
- Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.
- Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.
- Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
- Blessed be the hand that prepares a pleasure for a child, for there is no saying when and where it may bloom forth.
- Books are embalmed minds.
- Books are the legacies that genius leaves to mankind, to be delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to those that are yet unborn.
- Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble.
- Cast forth thy act, thy word, into the everliving, ever-working universe. It is a seed-grain that cannot die; unnoticed to-day, it will be found flourishing as a banyan grove, perhaps, alas, as a hemlock forest, after a thousand years.
- Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
- Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
- Creating more leaders is the only true leadership.
- Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.
- Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
- Each day of our lives we make deposits into the memory banks of our children.