Quotes About Legacy

People don't appreciate you or know your value until you're gone

You may not miss me when I'm gone, but you will miss me when I move on.

Things end. But memories last forever.

I know you wish you never met me, but I hope you never forget me.

It wont matter in a year and it wont be remembered in 10 years.

In this great future, you cant forget your past

Choose your words and actions wisely. They can be forgiven, but not forgotten.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

We build to destroy and we live to die, that's the eventuality of it. Nothing lasts forever. It's sad to note that sometimes we are the destroyers and killers.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Sadness is always the legacy of the past; regrets are pains of the memory

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

We ourselves did not invent family habits. For all eternity, your family is like mine, a dysfunctional lifestyle and a passing of habits from generation to generation. Not out of malice, spite, or hate, but what was known true and what was known best. As ineffective as these habits were, we knew no better way of loving one another.

Most times, how you treat your children is how they grow up to treat you.

Be Honest when you are with your kids, because you see your past in their eyes and they see their future in yours.

Children will rarely appreciate their legacy with the same ardency that their parents labored to provide it.

Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs. Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

The first half of our lives is spoiled by our parents, and the last half by our children.

A son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair

As a nation, a society, a family and an individual, we must be grateful to our great ancestors who dedicated their lives to laying the infrastructure of our livelihood today. Lets continue their path and build upon it.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers