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Legacy Quotes
"The richest person in the cemetery is the one who left behind the most happy memories."
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"A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend."
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"Eternity is the mentality for immortality. Make your mark, leave a positive legacy!"
12
"Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them."
12
"Preserve the spirit of a 'lost' age, when time moved slower."
12
"The richest person in the cemetery is the one who left the most happy memories."
10
"People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die."
10
"When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will we see that we were here!"
10
"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."
10
"The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil."
10
"The child you hold in your arms is your gift to a future that you will not see. Therefore, we must turn a blind eye to ourselves and selflessly pour the best of ourselves into our children while rigorously sifting out the worst of ourselves. And once we are utterly spent by such daring gestures, we will shockingly discover the resulting emptiness as astonishingly filled."
9
"Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you."
9
"Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives."
9
"If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about."
9
"The legacy I leave will be unimaginably enhanced by the legacies I received. Therefore, I must be wise enough to embrace the history of those who have gone before me so that I can shape the future of those who will go ahead of me."
9
"Dresden's not gone, I said. I touched a hand lightly to my brow. "He's here. I touched Will's bare chest, on the left side. "Here. Without him, without what he's done over the years, you and I would never have been able to pull this off."No, he agreed. "Probably not. Definitely not."There are a lot of people he's taught. Trained. Defended. And he's been an example. No single one of us can ever be what he was. But together, maybe we can."
9
"Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions."
8
"What will remain is neither you nor me but what we shared among each others."
8
"I had an inheritance from my father,It was the moon and the sun.And though I roam all over the world,The spending of it's never done."
8
"You will get your father's wealth one day but not his legacy."
8
"In another 2,400 years, even Socrates, the most well-known genius of the century, might be forgotten. The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible."
8
"O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence; liveIn pulses stirred to generosity,In deeds of daring rectitude..."
8
"Sumone Yiden Smiff was a businessman of note. Was, past tense. Through years of sweat and swearing and amazingly smart (or lucky) deals he'd built up a mining empire that spanned the sum of known space. At 74 years, he had reached the apex of a career stretching half a century. His companies mined precious commodities like Impervium, Obstinatium and Bitanium. He wasn't really famous, or ostentatious. In fact he only ever made the cover of Fortune One Billion once, twenty-five years ago. He'd never married, had lots of children " light-years apart, apparently."
8
"All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years."
7
"Invest your life into what you were born to do. Make every minute of your life count. Redeem every minute of your life and convert it into greatness."
7
"And the people who would burn the words, the people who would take the books from the shelves, the firemen and the ignorant, the ones afraid of tales and words and dreams and Hallowe'en and people who have tattooed themselves with stories and Boys! You Can Grow Mushrooms in Your Cellar! and as long as your words which are people which are days which are my life, as long as your words survive, then you lived and you mattered and you changed the world and I cannot remember your name.I learned your books. Burned them into my mind. In case the firemen come to town."
7
"You may or may not make a million dollars in life, a song may not be sung in praise of you, monuments may not be erected in your name but promise me this: to live life fully, to give wholeheartedly, to do your best with what you have, to impact souls, to use your gifts and talents to serve humanity, to live, love and leave a legacy in your own way."
7
"We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create."
7
"I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children."
7
"History will remember you for your accomplishments, not for your ability."
6
"Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived."
6
"Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangible collective projects, which leave us wondering what we did last year and, more profoundly, where we have gone and quite what we have amounted to....How different everything is for the craftsman who ... can step back at the end of a day or lifetime and point to an object--whether a square of canvas, a chair or a clay jug--and see it as a stable repository of his skills and an accurate record of his years, and hence feel collected together in one place, rather than strung out across projects which long ago evaporated into nothing one could hold or see."
6
"He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history."
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