Welcome to my Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote. See today's daily inspirational quotes below.
May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Saturday, December 28, 2013

A Parent's Gift


Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike

To leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela

Almost nothing you worry about today
will matter in a hundred years.
Think carefully about what you can focus on today.
Choose tasks that will actually make a positive difference
to your great-grandchildren.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


Further reading: For Our Children

Role Model

Responsibility to Future Generations

The Wisdom of Anne Frank

Don't Stay in a Broken Marriage "For the Children"

Legacy

Children

Parents

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