Jim Rohn Quotes

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

I sometimes look at my bookshelves today and wonder which volumes my sons will treasure in twenty or thirty years. Which should I be saving for them? Which will fade with time?

I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.

The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it

You can never achieve anything in a house unless you have things that have been passed down and you find a place for them for yourself.

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

My mother was really amazing and left me with a whole lot of treasures. I miss her terribly.

Leaving a legacy behind is huge.

Anne Romaine collected her own parallel archive to [Alex] Haley.

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

I often quote an African proverb that says: "The world is not ours, the earth is not ours, It's a treasure we hold in trust for future generations." And I often hope we will be worthy of that trust.

What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.

What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.

We are only the trustees for those who come after us.

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom," it is a very serious consideration that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.

It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.

My hope for the planet is my children and grandchildren.

All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.

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

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.

Memories are the only real gifts we can leave our children.