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Legacy Quotes
"You will get your father's wealth one day but not his legacy."
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"What will remain is neither you nor me but what we shared among each others."
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"Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Pass on bravery and wisdom to the future generations, not some ragged traditions and baseless cowardice."
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"Hero-worship exists has existed and will forever exist universally among mankind."
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"Those only deserve a monument who do not need one."
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"The destiny of future generations depends on our action today."
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"He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history."
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"His style as a writer places him in the category of the immortals, and his courage as a critic outlives the bitter battles in which he engaged. As a result, we use the word 'Orwellian' in two senses: The first describes a nightmare state, a dystopia of untrammelled power; the second describes the human qualities that are always ranged in resistance to such regimes, and that may be more potent and durable than we sometimes dare to think."
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"History will remember you for your accomplishments, not for your ability."
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"Life is what you make it and legacy is what you leave it. Stop trying to be perfect, stop waiting for perfection to find you, and start making your environment a product of you instead of the other way around."
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"Full fathom five thy father lies;Of his bones are coral made;Those are pearls that were his eyes:Nothing of him that doth fade,But doth suffer a sea-changeInto something rich and strange.Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong Hark! now I hear them,-Ding-dong, bell."
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"Success lasts a lifetime but stops at the end of your life. Significance lasts many lifetimes and continues long after you're gone."
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"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing."
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"Timeless wisdom brings timeless blessings."
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"I made my name. What does this mean? It means you were not concerned with conquering the world as much as you were dedicated with conquering yourself."
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"A worthy legacy is the irrevocable consequence of dreaming."
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"Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability."
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"When you have nothing to show up for having lived for many decades, you are likely to borrow other people's credibility which won't fit! Live like you!"
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"When you have left your life, you will be judged not for your possessions but for your contributions."
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"I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone."
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"A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?"
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"Not marble nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme,But you shall shine more bright in these contentsThan unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.When wasteful war shall statues overturnAnd broils roots out the work of masonry,Nor mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burnThe living record of your memory.'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmityShall you pace forth; your praise shall still find roomEven in the eyes of all posterityThat wear this world out to the ending doom.So, till judgement that yourself arise,You in this, and dwell in lovers eyes."
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"A steely look of anger flared in my mother's eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own."
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"Regrets are the last words you speak to your loved ones when you die and the one thing we all fear when we live. I'd rather regret the things I've done and said than regret the things I haven't done or said. It is all the experiences and people you missed out on in life that you will feel the most regretful for in the end. God will forgive you of your mistakes, but there is nothing to forgive if you have never even tried, done or said anything that made a difference in your life or others."
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"Reproduce yourself and fulfill your calling."
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"Vacation time is the best time to do solitude because you could just take two weeks of it or one week of it and just isolate yourself. And when you isolate yourself, you can just begin to convert that time of vacation into any product you want."
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"Ideas taken and planted into the grave do not germinate."
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