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Legacy Quotes


"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!"


"When you have left your life, you will be judged not for your possessions but for your contributions."


"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."


"The individual succumbs but he does not die if he has left something to mankind."


"You are on your way to building a significant life when your service to others stops focusing on the now and the immediate future and instead focuses on generations to come and how your actions today will impact them long after you are gone."


"Your patriotism is not measured by what your country can do for you. It's all about what you can do for your country for your own benefit and for the benefit of unborn generations!"


"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."


"If our future generations were much wilier than us,then it might be them who have led us all this time,to make decisions which fit to their pre-existence,left us live in the world of uncertainty or by faith."


"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."


"Legacy is more than leaving possessions behind. It's about investing in people with passion and integrity through leadership and love."


"It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy."


"The dictators, commanders or emperors who want to conquer the world soon realize that the world has already been conquered by the artists and their arts!"


"In the wink of an eye, all quaint days of the past, the present, and future will meld together into the bottomless unknown of perpetuity. Only trace evidence of our invertebrate existence will anoint future generations. In the crinkle of time, our houses will crumble apart. Companies that we worked for will go out of business or merge with other nameless conglomerates. What will survive us are our children and our words."


"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."


"Aphros nodded, a glint of pride in his eyes. "We have trained all the famous mer-heroes! Name a famous mer-hero, and we have trained him or her!"Oh, sure, Leo said. "Like, um, the Little Mermaid?Aphros frowned. "Who? No! Like Triton, Glaucus, Weissmuller, and Bill!"Oh. Leo had no idea who any of those people were. "You trained Bill? Impressive."


"Reproduce yourself and fulfill your calling."


"The only people remembered in history are the ones that dedicate their lives to service and purpose."


"We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time."


"Ideas taken and planted into the grave do not germinate."


"Posterity will never hear of you. You will be lifted clean out from the stream of history. We shall turn you into gas and pour you into the stratosphere. Nothing will remain of you; not a name in a register, not a memory in a living brain. You will be annihilated in the past as well as in the future. You will never have existed."


"Death ends a life, not a relationship."


"I succeed him no one could replace him."


"We are constantly reminded about how short life is. Please try to leave your best positive impression on everyone that you meet."


"The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary."


"Even a cockroach can be legendary by being killed by a legend."


"The greatest people in history were those who lived a life of significance and service. You can join them if you're willing to serve."


"The minimum you should do with your life is to at least reproduce it."


"Those who put their heart and soul into something bigger than themselves, never die from the psyche of humanity."
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