Quotes About Legacy

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.

Personally , I'd rather be remembered for what I've done for the world , and not for how sexy I looked in a dress. The greatest people that ever lived are found in history books , and their remembered for what they've done for the world and not for how they looked. Always remember that you have more to offer the world than just your looks.

Sad, but one day our kids will have to visit museums to see what a lady looks like. So if you find one, I beg of you, hold her tight. Yes, if you spot one, good sir, treat her right.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

Women must have their wills while they live, because they make none when they die.

The women has her own battlefield with every child she brings into the world she fights a battle for the nation.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Well-behaved women rarely make history.

In the end nothing matters what matters is how you lived your life. So do what you want and be yourself.

Life is not about finding for yourself, it's about creating for yourself and others.

Don't work to survive. Work to create something that survives you.

Remember friends as you pass by, As you are now so once was I. As low as I you once must be, Prepare yourself and follow me.

Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.

Death may indeed be final but the love we share while living is eternal.

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.

Never hurt your parents willingly, love them, respect them otherwise you'll regret this your whole life when they'll be gone.

The greatest gift one person can give their children is love.

At the end of the day, when we leave this world, the only valuable legacy we leave behind, is the love we gave to others and the love others gave to us.

One day we will no longer exist on this earth. We will be just a memory to a select few. We should make sure those memories are good... how we touched them, how we made them feel. This will be what we leave behind, this will be our legacy...that we made a difference in someone's life, our gift to the ones we Love and to the world

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.