Robin Sharma Quotes

Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile.

If we provide the young with a strong foundation, we can leave behind a legacy substantially greater than most are able to bequeath. As for the women, the old adage that you invest in a woman, you invest in a generation, still rings true today.

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.

The future that I will not live to see is the one my children will live in. That's my immortality. And I shouldn't try to mortgage theirs for my benefit.

I am now playing for 100 years hence.

The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself... One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations.

I'm sixty-eight years old. What I do now will be read by unborn generations for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years. For me, it's not about my work - that is, it's not about Wayne Dyer's work, how much money I make, how well I do, or how well my products do.

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

We have to build the country that we want to see our future children and grandchildren live in.

That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done.

I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.

Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.

Learn how to grow out of yourself and into the world of others: Plant a shade tree under which you know you will never sit. Set some goals that may benefit your children or an orphanage or the employees of your company or future generations or your own city, fifty years from now.

Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.

Dear young people, let me now ask you a question. What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm foundations, building something that will endure?

What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?

You words affect generations after you. Speak blessings and favor over them.

I'm really disturbed by the degree to which I don't hear people saying, "Are we leaving the world better than we found it?" I think we are a generation that perhaps could not answer in the affirmative, and it is the evasion of the larger responsibility of being only one generation in what one hopes will be an infinite series of fruitful generations. There is a selfishness in refusing to understand that we are passing through; others will come, and they deserve certain courtesies and certain considerations from us.

I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left the vivid air signed with their honor.

The truth of the matter is: you can create a great legacy, and inspire others, by giving it to philanthropic organizations.

All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation

Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy – a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others.