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Quotes about Enduring Influence
This is true. What a man is survives him. It can
— John Maxwell
Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
We have to ask, Why is there no other first-century Jew who has millions of followers today? Why isn't there a John the Baptist movement? Why, of all first-century figures, including the Roman emperors, is Jesus still worshiped today, while the others have crumbled into the dust of history?
— Lee Strobel
The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is survives him. It can never be buried. -J. R. MILLER
— John Maxwell
Success is not what you leave to but what you leave behind
— John Maxwell
When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come.
— Gordon Hinckley
The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history.
— Charles Colson
I wish to go on living even after my death.
— Anne Frank
Ruth's disposition is the same all the time—very sweet and very gracious and very charming. When it comes to spiritual things, my wife has had the greatest influence on my ministry.
— Billy Graham
every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence which would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would as certainly lose if she were ever false to them.
— LM Montgomery
Love leaves legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.
— Rick Warren
Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end.
— John Ortberg