Quotes about Legacy
I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.
— Charles Dickens
I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion.
— Peter Drucker
My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.
— Maya Angelou
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
— George Washington
All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.
— Abraham Lincoln
Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.
— Wendell Berry
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
— Mother Teresa
People will summarize your life in one sentence - Pick it now.
— John Maxwell
Your goal as a leader isn't to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.
— John Maxwell
I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.
— Kobe Bryant
Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.
— Julie Andrews