46 quotes
“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
— William James
“Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”
— Dalai Lama
“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they will never sit”
— Greek Proverb
“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”
— Alex Haley
“The past is never dead in family. It is not even past.”
— William Faulkner
“The present is theirs the future for which I really worked is mine”
— Nikola Tesla
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”
— Cicero
“A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives”
— Jackie Robinson
“The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.”
— Solomon
“Let my thoughts come to you when I am gone like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Write what should not be forgotten”
— Isabel Allende
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children through families.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.”
— Terry Pratchett
“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”
— Unknown
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living family.”
“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“What is a legacy but planting seeds in a garden you never get to see”
— Lin-Manuel Miranda
“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away”
“Every act of kindness is a piece of love we leave behind.”
— Rumi
“A true conservationist is someone who knows that the world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.”
— John James Audubon
“True wealth is not measured in money or status or power it is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire”
— Cesar Chavez
“Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then you are an excellent leader.”
— Dolly Parton
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”
— William Shakespeare
“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.”
— Muhammad
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”
— Isaac Newton
“The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
— William Wordsworth
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
— Pericles
“Memories of our lives of our works and our deeds will continue in others”
— Rosa Parks
“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
— Albert Pike
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children”
“The deed of the kind passes not away, and no prayer from the grateful is lost.”
— Saadi Shirazi
“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.”
— Plato
“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?”
“Not all of me shall die; that which is best in me shall survive my death.”
— Ovid
“The deed of the kind perishes not, and gratitude for it faileth never.”
“A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.”
— Seneca the Younger
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