Quotes About Legacy

An old man should not resent those who are sent to take his place, and to recall when I was young and healthy and virile is an act of masochism that serves no purpose.

If you ask me,' she adds, pointing towards the book in her husband's lap, the stern visage of its subject, Alexander Graham Bell, staring back at her, 'that fucker has a lot to answer for.

The poisonous pedagogy is transmitted multi-generationally as a sacred body of truth.

What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.

Take stock, citizen bacillus, Now that there are so many billions of you, Bleeding through your opened veins, Into your bathtub, or into the Pacific Of that by which they may remember you.

I seek an incorruptible inheritance," Christian answered. "It's pure and untarnished, and it never fades.

All you leave behind isn't worthy to be compared with the tiniest portion of that which I am seeking to enjoy.

He died at the house of one Mr Struddock, a grocer, at the Star on Snow Hill, in the parish of St Sepulchre's, London, on the 12th of August 1688, and in the sixtieth year of his age, after ten days' sickness; and was buried in the new burying place near the Artillery Ground; where he sleeps to the morning of the resurrection, in hopes of a glorious rising to an incorruptible immortality of joy and happiness;

True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation.

French essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne wrote, "The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little." The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.

Leaders Who Attract Followers . . . Need to Be Needed Leaders Who Develop Leaders . . . Want to Be Succeeded

The great men and women of history were not great because of what they earned and owned, but rather for what they gave their lives to accomplish.

No one can understand that mysterious thing we call influence . . . yet . . . everyone of us continually exerts influence, either to heal, to bless, to leave marks of beauty; or to wound, to hurt, to poison, to stain other lives.

The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is survives him. It can never be buried. -J. R. MILLER

This is true. What a man is survives him. It can

When you intentionally use your everyday life to bring about positive change in the lives of others, you begin to live a life that matters.

Speak up TODAY and say something positive. Even a tombstone will say something good about people when they are dead.

Success without a successor is ultimately failure.

Los líderes llegan a ser sobresalientes no por su poder, sino por su habilidad para empoderar a otros. El éxito sin un sucesor es en definitiva el fracaso.

Don't settle for being merely a teller of stories about significance. Decide to be the story of significance. Become the central character in your story of making a difference!

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who left well enough alone.

A leader is great, not because of his or her power, but because of his or her ability to empower others. Success without a successor is failure. A worker's main responsibility is developing others to do the work.

An infant is born with a clenched fist; a man dies with an open hand. Life has a way of prying free the things we think are so important.

HOW ARE YOU FILLING UP THE PAGES OF YOUR LIFE?