Quotes About Legacy

Stephen Covey said we all want "to live, to love, to learn and to leave a legacy.

Better questions to ask regarding a career or job choice would be: What was I born to do? What would be my greatest contribution to others? What do I really love to do (and when I'm doing it, time just flies by)? What are the recurring themes that I find myself drawn to? How do I want to be remembered?

Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you. So carve your name on hearts and not on marble." — C. H. Spurgeon

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

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy . . . in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, [and] Musick.

Who was Hitler?' I said. Tyrena smiled slightly. 'An Old Earth politician who did some writing.

If I should die," said I to myself, "I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd.

It's more satisfying to be useful now than to be remembered later.

I may be dead, but I ain't stupid.

You will never get death out of your system.

was taught to give back. In the village, the old way, the right way, the one way is to give back, always somehow, in some way to give back.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

It isn't how you die. It's what you live for.

Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

This is what almost all parents want for their children: a lifetime of happiness and an easy passage.

He preserved the union and freed the slaves.

Leave an imprint. You're young now. But when you get older and look back at your life, you'll ask yourself a whole bunch of questions. Did I make a difference? Did I contribute something? Did my being here matter? Dud I do something that left an imprint? I'm not asking you to end hunger or repair the ozone. But I am asking you to think about your purpose --- to recognize that your life isn't infinite, and that you should use your limited time here to do something that matters.

The value of a life can be measured by one's ability to affect the destiny of one less advantaged. Since death is an absolute certainty for everyone, the important variable is the quality of life one leads between the times of birth and death.