Quotes about Legacy
There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.
— Ecclesiastes 1:11
There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.
— Ecclesiastes 1:11
I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
— Ecclesiastes 1:12
So I became great and surpassed all in Jerusalem who had preceded me; and my wisdom remained with me.
— Ecclesiastes 2:9
Then I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what more can the king’s successor do than what has already been accomplished?
— Ecclesiastes 2:12
For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!
— Ecclesiastes 2:16
For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!
— Ecclesiastes 2:16
I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
— Ecclesiastes 2:18
And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.
— Ecclesiastes 2:19
All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
— Ecclesiastes 3:20
I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed this second one, the youth who succeeded the king.
— Ecclesiastes 4:15
There is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come even later. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
— Ecclesiastes 4:16