Quotes about Legacy
Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!
— Henry David Thoreau
It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.
— Charles Spurgeon
I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.
— Andrew Carnegie
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
— Billy Graham
I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.
— Bill Gates
Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money comes, money goes. But your story stays with you the rest of your life.
— Andy Stanley
I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.
— Glenn Beck
The everyday choices I make regarding money will influence the very coarse of eternity.
— Randy Alcorn
I was lucky to get one good adaptation. Field of Dreams the Musical is lurking in the wings. Hope it will provide my daughters with a ton of money someday.
— WP Kinsella