These heirs quotes will inspire you. Heirs, one who receives property from an ancestor: one who is entitled to inherit property or a person inheriting and continuing the legacy of a predecessor.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging heirs quotes, heirs sayings, and heirs proverbs.
Best Heirs Quotes
- “Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! O what a foretaste of glory divine! Heir of salvation, purchase of God. Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.” ~ Fanny Crosby
- “God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.” ~ William Ellery Channing
- “Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.” ~ Karl Kraus
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“I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “Without the proper care, there’s no beauty. Without beauty, there’s no boyfriend.” ~ Lee Bo-na
- “Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.” ~ David Rockefeller
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“If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.” ~ Muhammad Iqbal
- “This is God’s world, not Satan’s. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.” ~ Gary North
- “My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was Heir to my Fathers Estate, and as it were the Father to take care of us all, is not less Valiant than they were, although his skill in the Discipline of War was not so much, being not bred therein.” ~ Margaret Cavendish
- “Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.” ~ Matthew Simpson
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“May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
- “Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.” ~ Gautama Buddha
- “Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.” ~ William Wordsworth
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“The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God’s ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.” ~ Norman O. Brown
- “CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
- “What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.” ~ John F. Kennedy
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“Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.” ~ J. L. Austin
- “Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.” ~ Edsger Dijkstra
- “The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.” ~ Publilius Syrus
- “Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.” ~ Tacitus
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“When at last we are sure, You’ve been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.” ~ Dr. Seuss
- “Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates because they are born heirs to them.” ~ Alan Watts
- “I’m the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.” ~ Princess Margaret
- “The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.” ~ Thomas Fuller
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“One who wants to wear the crown bears the crown.” ~ Lee Min-ho
- “We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.” ~ Terence McKenna
- “A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.” ~ Juvenal
- “The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all the apostles, martyrs, ascetics, and just men who announced the coming of the Lord. And let us emulate their faith, charity, hope, zeal, life, patience under suffering, and perseverance unto death so that we may also share their crowns of glory.” ~ John of Damascus , Heirs quotes crown
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“What with your friend you nobly share, At least you rescue from your heir.” ~ Horace
- “When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.” ~ Jean de la Bruyere
- “Birds were like dinosaurs’ better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such heirs.” ~ Jonathan Franzen
- “Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn, but for the knitter it is an indication to write a will, bequeathing the stash to an appropriate heir.” ~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
- “In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of which the English peerage is an example, and of which we are beginning to abound in specimens in this country, is only a sort of human oyster bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worms’ banquet.” ~ Horace Mann
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“Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn’t like.” ~ Sam Wyly
- “To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people can feed, clothe and shelter themselves is just to apply palliatives. It is to show a lack of faith in one’s fellows, their responsibilitie s as children of God, heirs of heaven.” ~ Dorothy Day
- “From the equilibrium and spontaneous order of Adam Smith and his heirs, from invisible-handed markets and perfect competition, supply and demand, and rewards and punishments, I was pushed to theories of disequilibrium and disorder, and information and noise, as the keys to understanding economic progress.” ~ George Gilder
- “[T]he departing world leaves behind… not an heir, but a pregnant widow.” ~ Alexander Herzen
- “The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of freedom which our fathers left unfinished shall be brought forth with shoutings and cries of grace unto it, when our now drooping Liberty lifts up her head and prospers, happy will he be who can say, with John Milton, “Among those who have something more than wished her welfare, I, too, have my charter and freehold of rejoicing to me and my heirs.”” ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
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“Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th’s first.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “A great influence in my life was the sanctified or Holiness churches…Everybody in there sang and they clapped and stomped heir feet and sang with their whole body… Their music was so strong and expressive, it used to bring tears to my eyes.” ~ Mahalia Jackson
- “Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I’m handsome and heir to a throne?” ~ Stephen Sondheim
- “The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers – by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work – is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility. Yea, verily, and Amen! the task is tireless and its joys without bounds; for the whole Universe, and all that in it is, what is it but the infinite playground of the Crowned and Conquering Child, of the insatiable, the innocent, the ever-rejoicing Heir of Space and Eternity, whose name is MAN?” ~ Aleister Crowley
- “World War III will be triggered off not by suppressed nationalists seeking political independence, as happened the first time around when the Serbs at Sarajevo shot the heir to the Austrian throne, but by some semiliterate, whacked-out “loner” who lobs a rocket into a nuclear arsenal in order to impress Brooke Shields.” ~ Philip Roth
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“A full relationship is what God offers to those who come to God by Jesus. Imagine this! An open invitation to become a member of the royal family and a joint-heir with the Son of God.” ~ R. T. Kendall
- “Creation’s heir, the world, the world is mine!” ~ Oliver Goldsmith
- “It is … a sign of the times-though our brothers of physics and chemistry may smile to hear me say so-that biology is now a science in which theories can be devised: theories which lead to predictions and predictions which sometimes turn out to be correct. These facts confirm me in a belief I hold most passionately-that biology is the heir of all the sciences.” ~ Peter Medawar
- “I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream, it would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work.” ~ Helen Mirren
- “Only the Communist Party, as the institution that brings together the revolutionary vanguard and will always guarantee the unity of Cubans, can be the worthy heir of the trust deposited by the people in their leader.” ~ Raul Castro
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“She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.” ~ Sarah J. Maas
- “Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors his forbears and his heritage, and gives his blessing to his successors. He embodies the passing of human time, living and dying within the human limits of grief and joy.” ~ Wendell Berry
- “America’s new tea lovers are the people who have forced the tea trade to wake up. Elsewhere, tea has meant a certain way, a certain tradition, for centuries, but this is America! The American tea lover is heir to all the world’s tea drinking traditions, from Japanese tea ceremonies to Russian samovars to English scones in the afternoon. India chai, China green, you name it and we can claim it and make it ours. And that’s just what we are doing. In this respect, ours is the most innovative and exciting tea scene anywhere.” ~ James Norwood Pratt
- “The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the departing world leaves behind it not an heir, but a pregnant widow. Between the death of the one and the birth of the other, much water will flow by, a long night of chaos and desolation will pass.” ~ Alexander Herzen
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“Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God’s grace, not by our worth.” ~ John Calvin
- “Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.” ~ Arthur Balfour
- “Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.” ~ Joseph Conrad
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“Heirs Holdings has the ambition to generate at least a quarter of Nigeria’s power consumption needs in the next five years” ~ Tony Elumelu
- “If you can sin and not weep over it, you are an heir of Hell. If you can go into sin, and afterwards feel satisfied to have done so, you are on the road to destruction. If there are no prickings of conscience, no inward torments, no bleeding wounds; if you have no throbs and heavings of a bosom that cannot rest; if your soul never feels filled with wormwood and gall when you know you have done evil, you are no child of God.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
- “[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism … In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism.” ~ George Elliott Clarke
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“The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.” ~ George Best
- “For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.” ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
- “Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Some spoil them when they are young, and then quarrel with them when they are grown up, for having been spoiled; some love them like mothers, and attend only to the bodily health and strength of the hopes of their family, solemnize his birthday, and rejoice, like the subjects of the Great Mogul, at the increase of his bulk: while others, minding, as they think, only essentials, take pains and pleasure to see in their heir, all their favorite weaknesses and imperfections.” ~ Lord Chesterfield
