Quotes about Legacy
And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.
- Ecclesiastes 2:19
All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
- Ecclesiastes 3:20
I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed this second one, the youth who succeeded the king.
- Ecclesiastes 4:15
There is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come even later. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 4:16
or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.
- Ecclesiastes 5:14
As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.
- Ecclesiastes 5:15
This too is a grievous evil: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?
- Ecclesiastes 5:16
A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3
A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3
For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 6:12
A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.
- Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.
- Ecclesiastes 7:1