Quotes about Legacy

Three years after Mama's death, I became the first licensed woman watchmaker in Holland.

Ask yourself this question: at the end of your life, is it really going to matter how many Likes you got?

If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're jeopardizing your relationship with God, the only thing that's eternal.

If you're not dead, you're not done.

His famous, soul-stirring "I have a dream" speech will still give you chills and break your heart today. Decades later, long after his life on earth tragically ended, the legacy of his burden lives on, improving lives for generations to come. All because one man allowed his burden to birth a dream.

When we think about the kind of person we want others to remember us for being, it's much easier to work backward from our deaths

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

We die once when the last breath leaves our bodies. We die a second time when the last person speaks our name.' The first death is beyond our control, but the second one we can strive to prevent.

We die once when the last breath leaves our bodies. We die a second time when the last person speaks our name.

Do we carry the guilt from the sins of past generations? If so, can we bear the weight of that burden?