Quotes about Legacy
In fifty years, no one will remember anything but your good works, the strength of your reign, and your love for your wife.
— Rachel Hauck
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest man in history was the poorest
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
For I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. Exodus 20:5.
— Randy Singer
I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question. Tell me," I said. You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones.
— Ravi Zacharias