Legacy
148 quotes: 11 by Keith Craft, 137 from other voices.
Other voices on Legacy
- Education is a debt due from the present to future generations.
- Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
- Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
- Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.
- Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven for ever in the work of the world.
- Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.
- God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
- Good things, once done, will never disappear, even if you forget about them.
- Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.
- Great men are like meteors, which shine and consume themselves to enlighten the earth.
- History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.
- I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!
- I found Rome brick, I left it marble.
- I leave you love... I leave you hope... I leave you faith.
- I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.
- I would rather make my name than inherit it.
- If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor.
- If you really want to create something that lasts generations, you have to help inspire the next generation.
- If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
- If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.
- If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.Maya AngelouCommonly attributed
- In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go.
- Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.
- It has long seemed to me that it would be more honorable to our ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.
- It is a mathematical fact that the casting of a pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
- It is better to be nobly remembered, than nobly born.
- It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
- It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.
- It is not How we leave our Children, but What we leave them.
- It’s the one thing you can control. You are responsible for how people remember you — or don’t. So don’t take it lightly.
- Leave this world a little better than you found it.
- Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Let your legacy be how you loved while you were here and not the stuff you left behind.
- Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
- Live, love, learn, leave a legacy.
- My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.
- My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys.
- Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.