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Legacy Quotes
"It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy."
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"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!"
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"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."
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"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."
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"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!"
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"Those who put their heart and soul into something bigger than themselves, never die from the psyche of humanity."
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"If you do not work hard, nothing works."
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"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."
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"The only people remembered in history are the ones that dedicate their lives to service and purpose."
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"Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. We put on display our framed photographs, our parchment diplomas, our silver-plated cups; we monogram our linen, we carve our names on trees, we scrawl them on washroom walls. It's all the same impulse. What do we hope from it? Applause, envy, respect? Or simply attention, of any kind we can get?At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down."
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"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."
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"Legacy is more than leaving possessions behind. It's about investing in people with passion and integrity through leadership and love."
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"We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same."
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"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."
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"Don't carry your ideas to the grave untouched."
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"Even a cockroach can be legendary by being killed by a legend."
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"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."
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"The minimum you should do with your life is to at least reproduce it."
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"People can still see you even if you enter the next door. Even if you are dead and gone, they can still see you. What is necessary is whether they see you for the good, bad or ugly reason."
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"Don't just leave your footprints in the sand only to be washed away as the ocean waves come crashing to the shore. You want to impact the lives of others in such a way that you'll be remembered forever. You want to instill values and wisdom in the hearts and minds of others that will never be forgotten. So they may teach their children to carry on from generation to generation."
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"Some people die and you realize that the only mark they left on earth are the tomb stones under which they lie. The impacts you make on earth should be something worthy to improve lives."
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"When you depart from this world, you must have the confidence that you have left your footprints in the sands of time, that you were among those who fulfilled their purpose."
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"A man is no more than breath until his breath fashions the words that others cannot forget."
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"Live life so well that, even if you die, the empty seats behind you will tell the story that, "yea, this soul did what God sent him/her to do". Give life and hope into your family, village, community, country, continent and the world at large. You can do it!"
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"Her intention was to make the crowd aware, if they weren't already, that John was the giant whose shoulders Emily stood on."
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"Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident."
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"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."
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"I don't really care if people forget me. My legacy wasn't about me. It was about everything I could do for another. When that sinks in...well you try a little harder. You dream a little broader. Your heart stretches a little farther and you find that you can't go back to the same place and make it fit. You become a person of ideas and seek out your own kind. And then it happens: One day you discover that staying the same is scary and changing has become your new home."
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"If you live life on your own terms it shouldn't feel like a jail cell."
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"And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for a 'living funeral'. Each of them spoke and paid tribute.. Some cried. Some laughed. One woman read a poem: 'My dear and loving cousin.. Your ageless heart as you ,love through time, layer on layer, tender sequoia..' .. And all the heartfelt things we never get to say to those we love, Morrie said that day."
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