Quotes about Inheritance

There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.

Success is not success without a successor.

Do you realize the cost they paid when they surrendered to their new Lord? No money, no job, no understandable future. They had just hurt the one person they had been trained all their lives to honor and whom they never wanted to bruise—their father. They left him to finish the fishing. They left him with no inheritance. But something in their hearts said, "Go." So they left all they knew to become something that their minds could not comprehend.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

Prayer is the inheritance we receive and the legacy we leave.

The problem with this way of thinking is that authentic faith cannot be inherited.

Saving is a very fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

Here, take this knife," he said. "I won't need it anymore. You may find it useful. Also take this spoon. Don't sell it. Quickly! Go ahead, take what I'm giving you!" My inheritance …