Joe Manchin Quotes

My hope for the planet is my children and grandchildren.

I hope to be remembered as someone who promoted positive change in Mexican business and society - even if this is not currently understood.

My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.

I want to leave New Zealand in better shape than I found it. I know the job of prime minister is not forever and I'm going to do the best I can every day to make that difference.

There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now.

When I look towards my future, I want to leave a legacy that runs rich.

Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.

Forget the historic nature of his election having to do with skin color - Obama has an opportunity offered to few presidents: the chance to set the course of the nation for decades, if not generations, to come. Who knows: perhaps in the near future, our grandchildren will spend money with Obama's face on it.

When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come.

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

We must all live so that our children do not have to pay for our deeds.

I prefer that people remember me as a president who made reforms rather than a president who did nothing.

Legacy? I'm a worker in the factory; all we care about is today! A legacy... what a bunch of baloney.

I think everyone wants for their children a world that's better than the one they came up in.

We can't expect the world to get better by itself. We have to create something we can leave the next generation.

If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.

We must reflect on the kind of country that we want to build and the kind of society which we are choosing to pass on to our children.

I just want to do some movies that my children and my grandchildren would be proud of. That's my yardstick.

Growth does not bring any 'automatic' improvement in the health component of wellbeing.

I want my kids, my grandkids to have a great life.

When I think about my legacy, I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

I know I will leave my work unfinished. I just hope I planted enough seeds in my children and grandchildren that they will continue.

What impact are you making, not only today, but for eternity? What impact are you making to leave a legacy?