Quotes about Legacy
All we own is a passing intention, but what comes about will outlive and surpass our power.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
— Abraham Lincoln
Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion.
— Abraham Lincoln
The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
— Abraham Lincoln
The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
— Abraham Lincoln
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
— Abraham Lincoln
In the end, it's not the years in your life that counts. It's the life in your years.
— Abraham Lincoln
That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
— Abraham Lincoln
I do not wish you to believe that I assume to be any better than others who have gone before me.
— Abraham Lincoln
Fourscore and seven years ago...
— Abraham Lincoln
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
— Abraham Lincoln
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years
— Abraham Lincoln