Inheritance Quotes

• This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

  Patrick Henry

  Family, Giving, Religion

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• We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

  Ethel Waters

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

  Confucius

  Happiness, Happy, Powerful

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• The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

  Isadora Duncan

  Children, Feet, Giving

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I would rather make my name than inherit it.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Inspirational, Attitude, Names

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Virginians”, p.242, Xist Publishing

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• A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Father, Son, Loss

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• Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

  Karl Kraus

  Wisdom, Experience, Saving

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• 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.

  James A. Garfield

  Sacred, Privilege, Fit

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 2”, p.792, Best Books on

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• An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Men, Greatest Love

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9”, p.38

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• The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspiring, Sports, Memorial Day

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• Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Heirs, Succeed, Born

  Quoted in R S Peters (ed) TheConcept of Education (1966), ch.10, 'Learning and Teaching'.

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• You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear through all eternity.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Children, Weaving, Coats

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• When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Quarrels, Estates

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson (1904). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes”

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• Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

  Albert Einstein

  Family, Children, School

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.56, Broadway Books

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• There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Family, Inspiring, Children

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• People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Money, Women, People

  Louisa May Alcott (2004). “Little Women”, p.212, Collector's Library

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• It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

  William Labov

  African American, Half, Slavery

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• Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

  Ella Maillart

  Home, Conquer The World, Long

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• The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?

  Pope John Paul II

  Children, Race, Years

  Pope John Paul II (1980). “Pilgrimage of peace: the collected speeches of John Paul II in Ireland and the United States”, HarperCollins

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• Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  Christian, Years, Democracy

  RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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• Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.

  Albert Claude

  Dream, Our Generation, Cells

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• Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

  Alberto Moravia

  Law, Custodians, Generations

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• The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Hard Work, Years, Heritage

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• Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

  Karel Capek

  Literature, England, Dignity

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• Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Believe, Parent

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