Quotes About Legacy

He who dies with the most toys is still dead.

Don't worry about becoming successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.

I want to live my life so my aura, when it leaves, is very bright.

When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.

Quando você faz do amor ao próximo a história da sua vida, nunca existe um último capítulo, pois o seu legado continua. Você oferece sua luz a uma pessoa, e ela a faz brilhar em outra, e depois em outra, e assim por diante.

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were."-

Apa pun panggilan Anda, itu sudah berakar di dalam Anda, dan akar itu bisa diinjak atau ditarik tetapi tidak pernah bisa dihilangkan. Akar itu tumbuh semakin kuat ketika dirawat, dipelihara - dan, yang terpenting, dibagikan kepada orang lain.

Terlepas dari seberapa banyak kekayaan yang Anda miliki, segala sesuatu akan berlalu dan berubah bersama waktu. Yang nyata, yang abadi, adalah siapa diri Anda dan apa yang ditakdirkan kepada Anda untuk dibagikan kepada dunia.

Aku tidak mau mati esok hari, tetapi jika aku mati, aku akan pergi dengan bahagia. Karena aku telah bekerja keras untuk menggunakan apa yang telah dikaruniakan kepadaku dengan sebaik mungkin. Dan pelajarannya adalah: Tidak pernah ada kata terlambat.

When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.

Wenn Sie morgen sterben, welches Versäumnis werden Sie bereuen? Wenn morgen der letzte Tag Ihres Lebens wäre, würden Sie ihn so verbringen wie heute?

Perhaps one day someone from a distant land will listen to this story of mine. Isn't this what lies behind the desire to be inscribed in the pages of a book? Isn't it just for the sake of this delight that sultans and viziers proffer bags of gold to have their histories written?

But after my death let it be known that in my old age, at the very end of my life, there was still plenty that made me smile.

Çünkü benim gibilerin daha sonra yaÅŸayabileceÄŸi ikinci hayat, elindeki kitaptan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir.

Todas las civilizaciones, como la gente que hay en los cementerios, son mortales. Y nosotros sabemos, como el hecho de que vamos a morir, que las civilizaciones que han llegado a su término no volverán nunca más.

Tahta oturaca?? bir ÅŸehzadeye yirmi dokuz ya??na kadar budala ve mutlu bir çocuk hayat? sürdürtebilen bir imparatorluk, tabii ki y?k?lmaya da??lmaya, yok olmaya mahkumdur.

The story spoke to them in just the same way that Oedipus' murder of his father and Macbeth's obsession with power and death speak to people throughout the Western world. But now, because we've fallen under the spell of the West, we've forgotten our own stories. They've removed all the old stories from our children's textbooks. These days, you can't find a single bookseller who stocks the Shehname in all of Istanbul! How do you explain this?

Of course, I will be remembered only so long as my illustrations and manuscripts cause your eyes to prance and flowers of bliss to bloom in your hearts.

Ve?inu smo novca ulagali ili trošili na kupnju parcela i starih zgrada za budu?e gradnje u dijelovima grada koji ?e poskupjeti. Posebice kupuju?i prazna zemljišta izvan grada, osje?ao sam se poput sultana koji pokušava zaboraviti na bol zbog nemanja djece pripajaju?i nove države svome carstvu.

As a fatherless son, so a sonless father will be embraced by none. —FERDOWSI, Shahnameh

Better a cheap coffin and a plain funeral after a useful, unselfish life, than a grand mausoleum after a loveless, selfish life.

The best legacy a man can leave his children is the memory and influence of a large, broad, finely developed mentality, a well-disciplined, highly cultured mind, a sweet, beautiful character which has enriched everybody who came in contact with it, a refined personality, a magnanimous spirit.

Columbus was carried back to Spain in chains, and a pickle dealer of Seville, who never rose above the position of mate of a schooner, gave his name to the world Columbus had discovered.

According to a poll of 2005, 42 per cent of the Russian people, and 60 per cent of those over 60 years of age, wanted the return of a 'leader like Stalin'.