Legacy
148 quotes: 11 by Keith Craft, 137 from other voices.
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- No artist-work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.
- No legacy so rich as honesty.
- No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being the better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
- No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
- No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
- No worth, known or unknown, can die even on this earth.
- Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
- One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.
- One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
- Optimize your generosity. No one on their deathbed has ever regretted giving too much away.
- Our purpose is to make it a better and more joyous place to live, for those who live with us and those who come after us.
- Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
- Resolved, That I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
- Set out to build a company and make a contribution, not an empire and a fortune.
- Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
- Strive for work so good that someone will care about it 20 years from now.
- Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young men, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.
- That government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
- The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
- The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no man can tell what becomes of his influence and example, that roll away from him, and go beyond his ken on their perilous mission.
- The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.
- The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
- The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. ... The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
- The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.
- The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
- The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children is a legacy of character and faith.
- The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.
- The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- The legacy of heroes--the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.Benjamin DisraeliCommonly attributed
- The love you give your kids will travel several generations into the future.
- The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
- The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
- The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity, is that of a good character. The richest bequest which any man can leave to the youth of his native land, is that of a shining, spotless example.
- The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.
- The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have.
- The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.
- The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to be desired when dying.
- The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
- The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.