Quotes About Bequest

#1. Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.

Samuel Smiles

#2. To place your name by gift or bequest in the keeping of an active educational institution is to ... make a permanent contribution to the welfare of humanity.

Calvin Coolidge

#3. The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity, is that of character. The richest bequest which any man can leave to the youth of his native land, is that of a shining, spotless example.

Robert Charles Winthrop

#4. Love is the human family's most precious legacy. Its richest bequest. Its golden inheritance.

Michael Jackson

#5. But the bequest is involved in legal disputes, and pending them the work has stopped; so that like many other great undertakings in America, even this is rather going to be done one of these days, than doing now.

Charles Dickens

#6. BEQUEST. You left me, sweet, two legacies, - A legacy of love A Heavenly Father would content, Had He the offer of; You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.

Emily Dickinson

#7. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.

Samuel Smiles

#8. He danced along the dingy days, and this bequest of wings was but a book.

Emily Dickinson

#9. Saying of the Prophet
The Bequest
I have nothing to leave you except my family.

Idries Shah

#10. The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves.

Jeffrey Kluger

#11. The only thing which existed was the here and now, future and past crumbling at our sides.

Paula Becka

#12. A radical, who stood on top of an abandoned piano to declare that the fire was the friend of the poor and urge the crowd to help itself to what it wanted, was suddenly quieted by a well-aimed whiskey bottle.

Emmett Dedmon

#13. Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

Anton Seidl

#14. I really have a deep sense of caring about the air that we breathe and the water that we drink. I want to be able to say that I was trying to protect that. And I also care deeply about children. My children, all children. And I care deeply about giving back.

Christie Brinkley

#15. The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

Seth Godin

#16. You don't want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill out of them. It is allpurely secondary
and more decadent than the most hide-bound intellectualism.

D.H. Lawrence

#17. It's not how much something's worth today, it's what it's worth in five or 10 years.

Yuri Milner

#18. To be forgotten is not something horrible; not to be remembered ever again is something horrible!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. When he looked at me, his eyes positively twinkled. Christ. I was screwed. Eyes were twinkling at me.

J. Lynn

#20. It's definitely part of my job description not to be too fat.

Elizabeth Hurley

#21. I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.

Gaby Hoffmann