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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• If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Progress, Add, Ancestor

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.167, A&C Black

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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

  Nature, Father, Moon

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

  Ethel Waters

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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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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• 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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• 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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• The best inheritance a father can leave his children is a good example.

  John Walter Bratton

  Children, Father, Daddy

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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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• Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

  Charles Simmons

  Wealth, Dangerous, Benevolence

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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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• What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Father

  "Faust". Act I, scene i, 1808.

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• Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Divided, Knows

  Aphorisms on Man no. 157 (ca. 1788)

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• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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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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• One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Business, Spring, Responsibility

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.311, Penguin

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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's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.

  Kin Hubbard

  Fun, Long, Watches

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• Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, People, Kind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.269

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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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• The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

  Thomas Fuller

  Funny, Money, Doctors

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