Quotes about Legacy
Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
— Francis de Sales
Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
— Francis de Sales
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.
— Joseph Campbell
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.
— Joseph Campbell
The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.
— Phillips Brooks
When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.
— Samuel Johnson
Death is not the end, but a more glorified existence.
— Gordon Hinckley
Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.
— William Hazlitt
The way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.
— Billy Graham
if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading
— Abraham Lincoln
Ungrace does its work quietly and lethally, like a poisonous, undetectable gas. A father dies unforgiven. A mother who once carried a child in her own body does not speak to that child for half its life. The toxin steals on, from generation to generation.
— Philip Yancey
Whatever you may believe about it, the birth of Jesus was so important that it split history into two parts. Everything that has ever happened on this planet falls into a category of before Christ or after Christ.
— Philip Yancey