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Legacy Quotes
"A son is an unfulfilled man's last attempt to fulfill his unfulfilled dreams."
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"Hero-worship exists has existed and will forever exist universally among mankind."
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"If you have committed all things to impacting a life at a time, or impacting a community or society, then welcome to a life of significance."
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"Don't carry your ideas to the grave untouched."
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"Trends are about as fickle as the direction of the wind, as are the legacies of those who flow with them."
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"Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them."
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"Even a cockroach can be legendary by being killed by a legend."
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"Life is a rich literature. We are only writing the history of our time."
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"The target of life and the idea of life is that every time must be converted into something."
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"It is my wish and most cherished hope that God would be pleased with my legacy, that lives would be changed by it, and that the world would be immeasurably better because I was privileged to leave a legacy at all. And if perchance I am fortunate enough to have these things come to pass, I can then rest in the fact that I have lived well."
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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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"The minimum you should do with your life is to at least reproduce it."
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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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"The establishment of the kingdom of God is forever."
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"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."
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"There is no one who was supposed to come to this world and leave empty."
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"Life is not about longevity but about effectiveness."
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"It is a good thing to live long but it is much more important to make a difference in life by living a life of significance."
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"Reproduce yourself and fulfill your calling."
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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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"Tolstoy was a Caucasian, Gandhi was an Asian, and Martin Luther King Jr. was a Negro, yet all of their hearts were inspired by the one idea of nonviolent resistance. King received it from Gandhi, Gandhi received it from Tolstoy, and Tolstoy received it from Christ."
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"Great deeds begin in the mind, extraordinary deeds begin in the heart, and remarkable deeds begin in the soul."
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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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"Invest your evaporating life and reap greatness. Invest your evaporating time and leave a legacy behind for future generations. Take this short time that you have on earth and convert it into greatness."
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"To be remembered, umbrella waits for the rain!"
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"We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us."
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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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