Quotes about Legacy
Did I learn to be kinder, To be more patient, And more generous, More loving, More ready to laugh, And more easy to accept honest tears? If I accept those legacies of my departed beloveds, I am able to say, Thank You to them for their love and Thank You to God for their lives.
— Maya Angelou
The only thing you own is your story. Make sure it's a good one.
— Maya Angelou
La esencia se escapa, pero su aura permanece
— Maya Angelou
It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come."- Maya Angelou
— Maya Angelou
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave
— Maya Angelou
Humility says there were people before me who found the path. I'm a road builder. For those who are yet to come, I seem to be finding the path and they will be road builders. That keeps one humble. Love keeps one humble.
— Maya Angelou
some of our descendents
— Melody Carlson
Our problems are not ours alone — we share them with future generations — and we have a moral obligation to hand our nation over to our children and grandchildren in good shape.
— Ben Carson
To saddle the next generation with unimaginable debt is not only callous, it is morally reprehensible.
— Ben Carson
Everyone needs to find the one thing that brings out her passion. It's what we do and share with the world that matters. I believe it's important that we leave our communities in better shape than we found them.
— Beth Hoffman
Christians have been beaten, whipped, starved, humiliated, mutilated, tortured, hung, burned at the stake, crucified, and fed to lions; yet two thousand years after a man called Jesus of Nazareth walked the streets of Jerusalem, 1,734 million people alive on this earth today call themselves by the ever-dividing, ever-uniting word: Christian. God is still scattering the seeds a few righteous renegades planted in a city called Antioch. Had they only known what they were starting.
— Beth Moore
Life is just a breath. All that will matter forever and ever in our heavenly state is the glory that came to God through our lives.
— Beth Moore