legacy

A true love can cross through your legacy and heritage.

Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.

A visionary is a leader of excellence who sees what others do not see, who achieves for now and plans for the future, who positively impacts different generations and raises up other visionaries.

Lawrence will go on burying his own undertakers.

We can__ answer King__ assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

Sir Arthur grimaced. He hated violence - perhaps his father ingrained that into him. But he still fought, for principle and for father's legacy. Now that legacy meant the protection of defenseless women. There were a few Persians in the way to execute that duty. He stabbed his blade into a Tatar's chest. Another one.

While Johns (Martin Luther King's predecessor as pastor in Montgomery) agreed with Dexter's general disdain for emotionalism, he was very fond of traditional spirituals, believing they represented a part of their history they ought to embrace and celebrate.

We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

Some live life passionately, some live just to be alive, while some are already dead and are waiting for it to be official. Live your life to the fullest so your legacy won't ever die.

What I really want is to be recognized as a writer; that someday, my poetry _ this is an interesting paradox _ would be taught in English classes; for my name, along with my poetry, to exist 500 years from now.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny after ward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honour. It is human at least, if not divine.

Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends.It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs.

So much of what we read and write these days is disposable.

The true measure of your success is the degree to which within you are truly content - and the depth to which others hold you with real love and respect

Serving my generation with excellence will mean my generation can in turn lead with excellence.

it was so hard to see what the future held because to perform at this game, you have to be __n the mud,_ obsessed with the task at hand. Perspective is neutralized, stunted so that you can capture only the most relevant, time-sensitive data that will determine how to approach your opponent that day. Then you look up and realize your 20-year career has been a collection of days where you couldn__ see tomorrow.

The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, "Are we being good ancestors?

You must appreciate beauty for it to endure.