Quotes About Legacy

Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family.

I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years.

God wants to use you to make a difference in His world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived.

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

There are so many people out there who think they are fans of Pink Floyd - and certainly the work I did in Pink Floyd - who are still furious that I left.

The longest lives are short; our work lasts longer.

We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young.

I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.

If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

I think everything in my life has led to my animal welfare work.

I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

I was proud to work with the great Gershwin, and I would have done it for nothing, which I did.

My grandmother made dying her life's work.

Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.

To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about.

Always be prepared; always work hard and take pride in your work no matter what it is. I still follow that advice and have already tried to pass it on to my children. They, of course, ignored me.

If you work hard and play by the rules, you'll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will have a better life than you did.

Certainly it is important to work hard for your children, but if the only legacy you can give them is money it is a poor legacy indeed.

Remember your ancestors, dream of your descendants and work hard while you're living.

Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed.

My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.