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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once


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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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LORRIN L. LEE You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
CRAIG GROESCHEL You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE.
LORRIN L. LEE The only thing you have left when no one believes in you is—whether you believe in your self.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you di...
LORRIE MOORE What you do, say, and have reveal who you are.
LORRIN L. LEE When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
VINCE GILL live a life to your fullest that is when you will die you will live a legacy behind.
FELIX OMWENGA Be the best you can be. Do the best you can do. Have the best you can have.
LORRIN L. LEE Everyone has there own good reasons for being what they are being, doing what they are doing, and ha...
LORRIN L. LEE There are only two things you HAVE TO do in life. You HAVE TO die. You HAVE TO live until you die. Y...
SOURCE UNKNOWN The Best Person to BE is Who You are. The Best thing to DO is what you Love. The Best Things to HAVE...
LORRIN L. LEE Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your c...
VINCE GILL I told him you do it by what you write. We're in competition with ourselves. We've got a legacy and ...
BILLY PAYNE The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really onl...
KATE BUSH I told him, 'The thing you have to understand . . . is put yourself in a position when it happens ag...
BRIAN SNITKER We will have some of the legacy athletes there jumping for the anniversary.
CONNIE HAGLER The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
CARLOS CASTANEDA Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT It makes her real. We knew when we left the hospital that Hailey was going to die. And all you have ...
AMANDA DIAMOND The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and t...
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BIBLE Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN You have the soul of a corporation," a teacher once told him. It was meant as an insult, but he took...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Hypothetically, if the only choice you got is to do the wrong thing, then its not really a wrong thi...
VLADIMIR LEM All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.
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JOSH HUTCHERSON Live as if you had one minute left to live. You then have at least one minute of life to it's fulles...
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DONAVAN NELSON BUTLER, MASTER SERGEANT US ARMY To have more... Be more. Do more. Give more.
LORRIN L. LEE Are you being the best you can be? Are you doing the best you can do? Do you have the best you can h...
LORRIN L. LEE DO what you LOVE. BE with those you LOVE. HAVE the things you LOVE.
LORRIN L. LEE If you have been told that you are late and unreliable more than once, then not only do you lack pun...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE The pictures and the memorabilia, that's the only thing we have left of him.
NORMA AVILES Do not leave the world a mediocre when you were born with the potentials for greatness. Do not die a...
CLEMENT OGEDEGBE Before you die people will label you many things, and not everyone will have something nice to say.N...
TANICA S HALL People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the wo...
NEIL GAIMAN When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
VINCE GILL The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die o...
ARUNDHATI ROY Amazing how all you have to do is touch someone's heart once & your fingerprints are left on them fo...
N. S. COLE ...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give a...
JOHN GEDDES You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.
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YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
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FLIP SAUNDERS I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at ...
RAY CHARLES I always told him that to be the best, you have to make sure you do the extras.
LOU RUGGIRELLO To become rich in no time is very easy. The only thing you have to do is to look at those who are po...
VIKRANT PARSAI Max:"So the first thing we're going to do," I told him, "is push you off the roof.
JAMES PATTERSON Peace is something you only have when your enemy is gone. Either after you have turned him into a fr...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
SAMUEL SMILES What is there left once you have lost your manliness?
DAVID LAGERCRANTZ Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one li...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA The only thing you have to do is breathe; Everything else is just optional.
UNKNOWN Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER Then again, do you have to be told every single thing about the world before you know it?
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I left the only way you can leave. You pull your life off all at once - like a Band-Aid.
JOHN GREEN When you knew you were going to hang, the only thing to do was grin at the noose.
ROBERT JORDAN One day I told him, if you do as a Muslim does every day, pray five times a day, then you do not hav...
ABDUL MANAN Money changes everything. Especially when you have a lot of it. For Governor Bush, I think you're se...
ERIC DRAPER Be smart. You Only Die Once -YODO
SAVANIA CHINA You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you."
You seem a decent fellow," answere...
WILLIAM GOLDMAN I told you to hide your heart once. You should have listened.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do i...
MICHAEL JORDAN When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The only way you find out is the legacy. And a legacy is not a year or two; a legacy is 10 years.
BILL CARROLL When it’s right you can’t remember. Every time you read it again it comes as a great and unbelie...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The only thing I would say is that when you play Wake, you have to pick your poison. We tried to clo...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT Once somebody was nobody for you, but now he/she is everything to you and now you can do anything fo...
VIKRANT PARSAI But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him
BIBLE The sage said, "The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. ...
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to ...
BETTY CUTHBERT As I live life, I believe that the highest value I, and anyone who is ready, able and willing, is to...
NICK CATRICALA To be happy: BE Yourself. DO what you love to DO. Have what you love to HAVE.
LORRIN L. LEE BE Memorable. Do Memorable Projects. HAVE Memorable Experiences.
LORRIN L. LEE The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time.
TAMORA PIERCE once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM Please, if you would," the butler said, "no throwing the linens. Peaches, anyone?" -Fritz
J.R. WARD The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants
MARK TWAIN Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your chara...
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MICHAEL SMITH Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
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CHRISTIAN CHURCH Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.
STEPHEN KING You just can't have anyone as the candidate. And when you have just anyone, you lose,
JOEL MILLER You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.
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BOB WALSH I'm no hero. I would have done the same thing for anyone. I told him that if it had happened the nex...
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SAMUEL BUTLER It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and th...
SAMUEL BUTLER There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
SAMUEL BUTLER Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a tr...
SAMUEL BUTLER Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in th...
SAMUEL BUTLER A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
SAMUEL BUTLER Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
SAMUEL BUTLER For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy an...
SAMUEL BUTLER Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
SAMUEL BUTLER Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...
SAMUEL BUTLER An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God ha...
SAMUEL BUTLER The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in ...
SAMUEL BUTLER To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched
SAMUEL BUTLER People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been ...
SAMUEL BUTLER Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate
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