Quotes About Legacy

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world.

The main obstacle is the entrenched power of the legacy polluters.

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

The tragedy of power like mine is that there is no way down. There can only be extinction. Dust to dust rags to rags fear to fear.

Dear young aspiring leader, one day you will be in a position of power. That shouldn't let you enslave nor look down upon others, but aim to influence change for the benefit of future generations.

The person of creatures is living, the purpose of living is service, a service that implants legacy.

So the question becomes, Daughter of the Dragon, what will you sacrifice? What will you let be taken away so that you, too, can have power?

Enzo inherited a throne. Giulietta relied on her royal blood. Queen Maeve rules Beldain because she was born to it. But true rulers are not born. We are made.

Before the tears of the eyes dry outLet them sprinkle words on the paper Life is short and the man shall dieBut the words shall live on forever...

Expand!You are not small. Your Foremothers did not do what they did so you could occupy small!

No matter how banal the contents, there is always something that touches me. For someone now dead once thought these words significant enough to write them down.

The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony.

God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.

I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.

Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave.

The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.

It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.

I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit, that is a rather personal way of approaching the text - or a prayer.

Pave the path. Inspire. Make sure you are missed by the people who matter long after you have gone.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

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

The paper burns, but the words fly away.