Quotes About Legacy

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

Put aside your pride, Set down your arrogance, And remember your grave.

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

Acquire wisdom from the story of those who have already passed.

I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown…let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

A man without any history is like a tree without roots

Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye. We conquered the world with bravery and might, but we did not take it with us to the grave.

What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.

Only that which was effective for the first of this community will be effective for the last of it

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Live for this life as though you live in it forever and live for the life to come as though you die tomorrow.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.