Quotes About Legacy

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

Old fishermen never die, they just smell that way.

No one who dies never said that he had got everything in his/her life.

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

Who kept the faith, fought the fight and gave their life; the glory theirs, the duty ours!

Yes, remember your Creator now while you are young, before the silver cord of life snaps and the golden bowl is broken. Dont wait until the water jar is smashed at the spring and the pulley is broken at the well.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation.

Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... Just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is to have succeeded.