Quotes about Legacy

The past is what the present is doing now.

my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin.

No one shall be forgotten who was great in this world; but everyone was great in his own way, and everyone in proportion to the greatness of what he loved.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

The people that does not care for its children or grandparents is a people that has not future. Because it doesn't have the strength or the memory to go forward.

The consciousness of being borne up by a spiritual tradition that goes back for centuries gives one a feeling of confidence and security in the face of all passing strains and stresses.

In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.

You are not a success until you start changing other lives permanently.

If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.

Success is not about here and now. you must pass the test of time. the litmus test is fifty years from now. Success is succession.