Quotes About Legacy

One of the most common characteristics of a person who is nearing the end of the first half is that unquenchable desire to move from success to significance.

how to find meaning and fulfillment in the second half of our lives. In short, how to move from success to significance! Stephen R. Covey, Covey Leadership Center

This book will show you how to make the rest of your life the best of your life. I want every man in my congregation to read this inspiring story! Rick Warren, pastor, Saddleback Community Church

Let Bob Buford be your guide to make sure your best years are ahead of you. Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One-Minute Manager

We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.

What we do and what we know will impact someone today; Who we are will impact someone for a lifetime.

For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, I don't have anything left.' But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like, 'Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.

The whole process at the "Inny," as it was known, imitated a grand and long-standing intellectual tradition, and nothing defined it better than the august school motto: No nobis solum set toti mundo nati—You're born not for yourself but for the whole world.

There would be babies born to Beatles, to Beatles fans, millions of people who lived their lives to a soundtrack crafted by four Scouse boys who had either grown up or passed along.

they were now calling themselves the Beatles.

By mid-1966, an astounding eighty-eight Lennon-McCartney songs had been recorded in over 2,900 versions. Gershwin finally had competition.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.

In our family, mom and dad are Longhorns, our first two kids are Aggies and we're hoping our last one is a Longhorn. It gives us family fun on Thanksgiving Day.

I believe that fact had been haunting Danny for all these years. But now he could change all that. He could right a wrong and rewrite history, for in his film not only he but also the entire cast of Taxi would be at Andy's funeral.

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how.

I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.

Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.

The years pass, and a lifetime seems to go by in an instant. I'm told that the young boy is a grandfather now. He has lived a life that should be an example for everyone who achieves greatness of how to be humble and unselfish and how to treat others. It was a joy to be able to coach him for that season and the next year as well, to get to know him as a person as well as player, and it is a great honor to be asked to reminisce about him now.

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

I cannot live in the new time anyway, because I belong to the old time, which is dead.

Jól van ez így, gondolta az apu, minden visszatér a maga kezdeteihez, most látom, hogy valóban megállt az idÅ' és tényleg új kor vette kezdetét, ám nekem csak a régihez van kulcsom, az új idÅ' elÅ'ttem bezárattatott, és én már nem élhetek ebben az új idÅ'ben, mert az én helyem a régiben van, és az már halott.

Every era carries in its womb a child in whom one may not only place one's hopes, but through whom and with whom it would be possible to go on living.

Dad almost delighted at how the graves had resisted, how they had had to bring caterpillar tractors, how the chains had burst, but in the end they had succeeded, they had to succeed in tearing those old times out of the ground...

Mi patria es mi hijo y mi biblioteca.