Quotes about Legacy
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
— Edmund Burke
No one cares about their reputation or their bank account when they find themselves in the shadow of death.
— Edward Welch
We are connected to things that have been forced on us, such as the sins of others
— Edward Welch
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
— Albert Camus
When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.
— Albert Einstein
The Full Measure of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive in others because of him.
— Albert Schweitzer
The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.
— Albert Schweitzer
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
— Aldous Huxley
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
— Aldous Huxley
You can work all your life and make all the waters in all the rivers on Earth drinkable, but if, when you die, you are not ready to meet God, it doesn't matter.
— Anne Graham Lotz
I was with him, coincidentally, on the evening in 1979 when they had buried John Wayne. My father cried like a baby when he went to see the Duke.
— Frank Sinatra Jr.
In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.
— James Faust