Legacy
148 quotes: 11 by Keith Craft, 137 from other voices.
Other voices on Legacy
- The words that the father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world; but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity.
- There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings.
- There is no such sculpture as that of character.
- They who provide much wealth for their children but neglect to improve them in virtue, do like those who feed their horses high, but never train them to be useful.
- To achieve great things a man must so live as if he had never to die.
- We are reminded that, in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame, but rather how well we have loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better.
- We can finish nothing in this life, but we can make a beginning, and bequeath a noble example.
- We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
- We should be ashamed to die until we've made some major contribution to humankind.
- What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
- What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- What you’re going to leave this earth is the influence on others.
- When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value.
- When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
- When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.
- With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.
- Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.
- You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
- You aren't going to save the world on your own. But you might inspire a generation of kids to save it for all of us. You would be amazed at what inspired children can do.
- You get one life. Live it in a way that it inspires someone.
- You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.
- Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.
- Your legacy is every life you’ve ever touched.
- Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.Lee IacoccaCommonly attributed
- How you make others feel and what you teach and model through your everyday actions slowly evolves into a tightly woven tapestry of values and memories that represent your life as you lived it.
- The Life you Live will determine the Legacy you Leave!
- What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.PericlesCommonly attributed
- You are writing a life, a chapter each day, by deeds that you do and words that you say. Men read what you write whether faithless or true... what is life according to you?"UnknownCommonly attributed