Quotes about Inheritance

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

But Jacob was divinely chosen and his brother, the first-born, was rejected.

So also Augustine, "The suffering at which you cry, is medicine, not punishment; chastisement, not condemnation. Do not drive away the rod, if you would not be driven away from the inheritance. Know, brethren, that the whole of that misery of the human race, under which the world groans, is a medicinal pain, not a penal sentence

As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.

History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.

The best way to honor past accomplishments is by building on top of their breakthroughs.

I can express no better hope for my country than that the kind Providence which smiled upon our fathers may enable their children to preserve the blessings they have inherited.

All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.

There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.

Success is not success without a successor.

Do you realize the cost they paid when they surrendered to their new Lord? No money, no job, no understandable future. They had just hurt the one person they had been trained all their lives to honor and whom they never wanted to bruise—their father. They left him to finish the fishing. They left him with no inheritance. But something in their hearts said, "Go." So they left all they knew to become something that their minds could not comprehend.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.