Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old legacy quotes, legacy sayings, and legacy proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.William Shakespeare
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There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children.James Dobson
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The best way to leave a legacy is to believe, teach, defend, and promote what is true.Kevin DeYoung
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You get to decide the legacy that you leave.Anonymous
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Follow in the footsteps of your ancestors, for the mind is trained through knowledge. Behold their words endure in books. Open them and follow their wise counsel.Book of Kheti
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One who knows no proverbs knows not their ancestors.Nigerian Wisdom
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If we stand tall it is because we stand in the backs of those who came before us.Yoruba Wisdom
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A person without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.Marcus Garvey
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Unless one has the past in the present, one can't understand oneself.Wilson Harris
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Every generation needs the instruction and insights of past generations in order to forge its own vision.Jesse Jackson
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Every decision made is not entirely one's own to make...Do what you have to, but just understand what effect it will have, what legacy you will leave.Rita Dove
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We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Your legacy is made every day...Every person that you encounter in the space of your life whom you impact...in any way—that will be your legacy.Oprah Winfrey
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No legacy is so rich as honesty.William Shakespeare
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That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.Johann Von Goethe
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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.Friedrich von Schiller
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When a man dies, if he can pass on enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value.Thomas Edison
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People without knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture are like a tree without roots.Marcus Garvey
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The choices in life you have made will be / Your lasting, resplendent legacy / So choose to be kind in all that you do / No greater legacy could be left by you.Gary Shulman
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Long after this old oak tree has lost its leaves / its branches snapped and trunk uprooted / it would have imparted a lasting imprint.Alexander Lim
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By the time I'm gone, / I hope I made a difference.Trevor Nienhuser
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Legacy. What is a legacy? It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.Lin-Manuel Miranda
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I had an inheritance from my father, / It was the moon and the sun. / And though I roam all over the world, / The spending of it’s never done.Ernest Hemingway
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Legacy is not leaving something for people. It’s leaving something in people.Peter Strople
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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.Steve Saint
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A teacher affects eternity, and can never tell where the influence stops.Henry Adams
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Children are the legacy we leave for the time we will not live to see.Aristotle
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We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, but to leave behind something that will.Chuck Palahniuk
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That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.Patti Davis
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My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.Julia Morgan