Quotes About Legacy

In 1597, financially, physically, and spiritually exhausted , de Berrio (Don Antonio de Berrio) passed away with the bitter epitaph, 'If you try to do too much you will end by doing nothing at all.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

I DECLARE a legacy of faith over my life. I declare that I will store up blessings for future generations. My life is marked by excellence and integrity. Because I'm making right choices and taking steps of faith, others will want to follow me. God's abundance is surrounding my life today. This is my declaration.

You've been destined to live in victory, destined to overcome, destined to leave your mark on this generation.

Every time you resist temptation you are winning for your children.

You don't have to be bound by the barriers of the past. God wants you to go further than your parents. I'm sure your parents were fine, hardworking people, but don't fall into that trap of just sitting back and accepting the status

We will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done. PSALM 78:4

I'm blessed, I'm prosperous, and I'm a difference maker. I'm going to set a new standard for my family. We're going into our Promised Land.

I know I am blessed today because I had parents who honored God. I also had grandparents who prayed for me and modeled a life of excellence.

I'm a son. I'm blessed, I'm prosperous, and I'm a difference maker. I'm going to set a new standard for my family.

He's given you gifts, creativity, and dreams. He created you to leave your mark on this generation. You're not supposed to live and die and nobody knew you were here. There is something significant about you, something that will cause you to stand out to the point where, years from now, people will look back and say, "You made the world a better place.

listen to these words of Ann Griffiths, a humble Welsh Calvinistic Methodist who was a farmer's wife and who died in 1805 at the age of 29 when giving birth to her first child: Gladly

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain. —John Adams

Do you know what we take with us as we leave this plane? We take our spiritual enlightenment, our knowledge of good. This is stored up where neither moth nor rust can corrupt, and we take it with us. That becomes the foundation of our next experience.

This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy. To eat with reckless abandon, without conscience, without knowledge; folks, this ain't normal.

When I first called Jerry Wexler, the man everybody most associates with Berns's career, and told him I planned to work on this book, Wexler's affable tone disappeared. "I'll tell you this," he said. "I don't know where he's buried, but if I did, I would piss on his grave.

And from those ancestors, you will find a greatness buried deep within yourself that you did not even know existed." "You think?" Skah asked, breathlessly. "I know," said the croma.

He said we're all going to die,' 'And what did you say?' 'I said that's why i'm here

Death is not the end. Death is the credits rolling. The movie was over a while ago.

You and me will die the way we lived; telling each other stories to make it mean something.

It's fun to be a part of pop history. Anytime you can be referenced in that respect it can be cool.

With our limited life spans, we mere mortals have to figure out what best to do with our time so that when it ends we aren't ashamed to put our name on it, call it our life.

We're all going to die, love. I don't know anyone who's gotten out of this life alive