Quotes About Legacy

If your sole focus is money, you may create a successful startup. But if it's impact, you can probably create history.

Without triers they would never be any successors

You can follow others into mediocrity, or you can create something that will be remembered

Secret of success is something that will outlast in the life of human being.

The dead worry the living because their silence reminds us how little the great comedies and tragedies in our lives matter and how little the universe would care if we'd never lived at all." -- Nara

In the world, success is measured in terms of legacy, what we leave behind. In God's kingdom, success is measured by what we send on ahead.

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I'll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

Shed not for her a bitter tear; Nor give the heart to vain regret. Tis but the casket that lies here; the gem that fills it sparkles yet.

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

Death cannot kill what never dies.

Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

A man is not completely born until he is dead.

. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle.

A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for the deceased.

Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day.

Kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart.