Legacy Quotes

"To you from failing hands we throw the torch; be yours to hold it high."

John McCrae

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."

Jackie Robinson

"For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb."

Pericles

"Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time."

Sappho

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

Albert Pike

"No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind."

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Henry Adams

"Teaching is leaving a vestige of oneself in the development of another."

Eugene P. Bertin

"Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone."

Morrie Schwartz

"No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away."

Terry Pratchett

"In a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life."

Lucretius

"The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children."

William Havard

"We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India."

"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings."

Hodding Carter

"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence."

"The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith."

Billy Graham

"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance."

Ruth E. Renkel

"Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.”

“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”

“Nothing endures but personal qualities.”

“I did the best I could with what I had.”

“No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”

“Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.”

“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.”