Quotes about Legacy
We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.
— Henry David Thoreau
I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
— Zachary Taylor
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
— Thomas Jefferson
America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.
— Hillary Clinton
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
— John Donne
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction
— Ronald Reagan
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
— Marilyn Monroe
Your greatest legacy isn't your dream. Your greatest legacy is the next generation of dreamers that your dream inspires—the dreams within a dream.
— Mark Batterson
Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are. Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective.
— Mark Batterson
If the blessing stops with you, it'll eventually stop altogether! Instead of being a conduit for blessing and maintaining forward momentum, we settle for sideways energy.
— Mark Batterson