Quotes About Legacy

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.

In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

I have always thought that while it's wonderful to be the first to do something, you don't want to be the last.

I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour.

We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution?

Since the whole world is now concerned more about K-pop, I want to make more great songs which can be listed to as classics.

You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: 'Played it Safe.'

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

Every man wants to connect his life with something he thinks eternal.

Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered.

I can never be Michael Jackson or do what he did, but he is definitely a good inspiration: I want to give the kids that feeling.

You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it's at.

I haven't taken any new projects in the past years - I told myself, if I cannot live long enough to finish it, I don't want it.

Father made the most popular cars in the world; I want to make the best.

Study the past if you want to define the future.

If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.

As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark.

I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger.

As an overflow of my life - the wake I leave behind with my little dash on earth - I want others to fall in love with Jesus and know of His great hope and purpose for their lives.

I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.