Quotes About Legacy

"It's funny, I spent the first half of my life desperately trying not to become my mother, and now I am spending the second half of my life desperately hoping to become half the woman that she is."

"Success has many fathers, failure is a mother."

"Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone."

"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."

Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.

To get exponential returns, forget learning the latest thing. Instead, focus on what lasts.

Life never stops, ever ends, it goes on even after the death.

Life is more than just chess. Though king dies, life goes on.

I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it's important to think about – not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you're going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.

One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it became a book, 'I Already Know I Love You.' It was one of those really lovely things in life.

Like mother, like daughter.

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal."

Thank God we have the example of Martin Luther King, Jr. People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives, and that's why it's so important not just to commemorate his life, but to study and try to live by the principles of that life.

For me, often, there's such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I'm going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don't know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.

Lift others and yourself as you rise above this mess of comparison. Thank God for those who embraced their true selves and gave us gifts that only they could give: from Steve Jobs to Michael Jackson to Ray Charles to Mark Twain. There are so many more, and the list goes on.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

I am the Ultimate Warrior, you are the Ultimate Warrior fans and the spirit of the Ultimate Warrior will run forever.

Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming Communist.

The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.

Wherever we go, wherever we remain, the results of our actions follow us.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today.