Quotes about Legacy

God wants our lives to be significant!

I seek an incorruptible inheritance," Christian answered. "It's pure and untarnished, and it never fades.

All you leave behind isn't worthy to be compared with the tiniest portion of that which I am seeking to enjoy.

As the saying of the wise says, 'All this world promotes is vanity.' (But if a man lives many years and rejoices in them all; yet if afterwards he remembers the days of darkness, for they shall be many, he shall say that everything that shall have happened to him is vanity. — Eccles. 11:8)

He died at the house of one Mr Struddock, a grocer, at the Star on Snow Hill, in the parish of St Sepulchre's, London, on the 12th of August 1688, and in the sixtieth year of his age, after ten days' sickness; and was buried in the new burying place near the Artillery Ground; where he sleeps to the morning of the resurrection, in hopes of a glorious rising to an incorruptible immortality of joy and happiness;

True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation.

Leaders who attract followers... Need to be needed leaders who develop leaders... Want to be succeeded.

The great men and women of history were not great because of what they earned and owned, but rather for what they gave their lives to accomplish.

No one can understand that mysterious thing we call influence . . . yet . . . everyone of us continually exerts influence, either to heal, to bless, to leave marks of beauty; or to wound, to hurt, to poison, to stain other lives.

The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is survives him. It can never be buried. -J. R. MILLER

There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born.… When he seizes it… it is his finest hour.

This is true. What a man is survives him. It can