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