Quotes-Legacy

"Use me, God.

Show me how to take

who I am,

who I want to be,

and what I can do, 

and use it

for a purpose

greater than myself."

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A hundred years from now...it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child."


"Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones.  A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you." ~Shannon L. Adler

"I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness, in the child now an adult." ~Og Mandino

"I can have tomorrow what others can't  because I will do today what others won't."

"I can't promise my grandchildren that I will be here the rest of their lives, but I can promise that I will love them for the rest of mine."


"Life is a gift and it offers us the priviledge, opportunity and responsibility to give something back by becoming more." ~Anthony Robbins

"No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed  through it." ~George Washington Carver

      

"Our children are messengers we send to a time we will not see." 

"The days come and go, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them silently away." ~Emerson

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit." ~Nelson Henderson

"There is no finish line." ~Niki Commercial
                                                
                                               A New Day
"This is the beginning of a new day.  God had given me this day to use as I will.  I can waste it or use it for good, but what I do today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it!
When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something that I have traded for it.  I want it to be gain, and not loss; good, and not evil; success, and not failure; in order that I shall not regret the price that I have paid for it."

"To laugh often and much: to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children: to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends: to appreciate beauty: to find the best in others: to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition: to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.  This is to have Succeed." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything."

"Wake up with determination.  Go to bed with satisfaction."

"We live in the
                  Present.
We dream of the
                  Future.
We learn from the
                  Past."

"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily." ~John C. Maxwell

“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn