Quotes About Legacy

Perseus, you are not the hero.

We need a shroud. A shroud for the son of Hermes.

I want to build some thing permanent.

I hate the word 'demigod'. I prefer 'being born with a target on my back. - Blitzen

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness. Commodus

A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great Britain and America? Blinks of an eye...The very oldest root of civilization, at least of Western civilization, is Egypt. Look at the pyramid on the dollar bill. Look at the Washington Monument—the world's largest Egyptian obelisk. Egypt is still.......very much alive.

It's not how long you live that matters. It's what you live for. -Josephine to Apollo (Trials of Apollo: Book 2 The Dark Prophecy)

Juan Bautista de Toledo

Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever.

As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in heaven's list.

Knowing your purpose prepares you for eternity.

To make the most of your life, you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the value of it in your heart.

Remember, you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.

Death is not your termination but your transition into eternity, so there are eternal consequences to everything you do on earth. Every act of our lives strikes some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

William James said, "The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

When you live in light of eternity, your focus changes from "How much pleasure am I getting out of life?" to "How much pleasure is God getting out of my life?

Thinking about My Purpose POINT TO PONDER: There is more to life than just here and now. VERSE TO REMEMBER: "This world is fading away, along with everything it craves. But if you do the will of God, you will live forever." 1 JOHN 2:17 (NLT) QUESTION TO CONSIDER: Since I was made to last forever, what is the one thing I should stop doing and the one thing I should start doing today?

The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

We never really own anything during our brief stay on earth. God just loans the earth to us while we're here. It was God's property before you arrived, and God will loan it to someone else after you die. You just get to enjoy it for a while.

Living to create an earthly legacy is a shortsighted goal. A wiser use of time is to build an eternal legacy. You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.

Anytime you use your God-given abilities to help others, you are fulfilling your purpose of life. What matters is not the Duration of your life, but the Donation of it.

The eternal salvation of a single soul is more important than anything else you will ever achieve in life. Only people are going to last forever.

Jimmy, the baby produced to celebrate the peace after the war to end all wars, was about to fight in another one.

Everyone she worked alongside in France had been insatiable letter-writers and resolute diary-keepers, but Gwendolen had felt no urge to chronicle, no desire for an aide-mémoire. Life was for absorbing, not recording. And in the end, it was all just paper that someone would have to dispose of after you were gone. Perhaps, after all, one's purpose in this world was to be forgotten, not remembered.