Quotes About Legacy

In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is one big zit. It is one big blemish. We choked.

There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children.

You cannot see faith, but you can see the footprints of the faithful. We must leave behind "faithful footprints" for others to follow.

We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.

I want eternity. I was born for greater things.

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Each child in each generation chooses faith or disbelief. Faith is not an inheritance; it is a choice.

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship

Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.

What a glorious legacy of faith, courage, and ingenuity those noble early Mormon pioneers have left for us to build upon. My admiration for them deepens the longer I live.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

I do think that evangelicals in general need to think seriously about how you pass on your faith across generations and over the long haul.

Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.

Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.

Take good care of your REPUTATION, It's going to live longer than YOU.

If you're afraid of being forgotten? Then do something memorable.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.

Some people come and go and are forgotten. But there are other people who share a part in our destinies. They come, they go, but they are never forgotten.