Quotes About Legacy

In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.

In my experience, a mentor doesn't necessarily tell you what to do, but more importantly, tells you what they did or might do, then trusts you to draw your own conclusions and act accordingly. If you succeed, they'll take one step back, and if you screw up, they'll take one step closer. Whatever it is they teach you…pass it on.

Truman recognized the importance of submitting to an established pattern in a system much larger than himself. He tied his decision to the importance of the time-honored, limiting presidential precedence. In his declaration on this matter, Truman stated simply, "When Rome forgot Cincinnatus, its downfall began."508

To identify with an ancient legend such as Cincinnatus, or a living legend such as Washington, Franklin, or Jefferson, was to ask for nothing other than the recognition from fellow Americans for having done so.

The important thing about leadership is not what happens when you're there but what happens when you are not there.

My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.

It is not the dying that matters, it is how the man lived.

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

What will matter is not your success but your significance....

I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.

However well you do in the competition for the greatest toys, longest life, and healthiest brain, the best medical research indicates that eventually you're going to be dead. And you're going to stay dead for many years longer than you were alive, and all that will be left of you is people's memories of you, which is to say, your reputation.

If you want to be remembered as a good person, then try to be a good person. Who knows? It might just work. But start now, because if you're a boomer, time is running out.

My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother.

My legacy would be that you don't have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of humor, you can be sexy but comfortable, you can be timeless but fresh.

Freddy left the business and went to work as a pilot with Trans World Airlines. At age twenty-three, he married a stewardess, and the couple had two children, Fred and Mary. Freddy seemed far happier than he had been under his father; Donald, however, couldn't help but pick on Freddy's run-of-the-mill ambitions, asking him, "What's the difference between what you do and driving a bus?

One sizable gift came in 1994, when he gave enough to be listed as a "founder" of the Penn Club's new location in midtown Manhattan. The minimum gift for that category was $150,000. Two autumns later, Donald Trump Jr. arrived at the leafy campus. In all, three of the four older Trump children—including Ivanka (transferring after two years at Georgetown) and Tiffany—would attend Penn, making the school almost an inheritance, a family emblem. In

Have you ever thought about doing something then forgot all about it and it never got done? Well, when many folks get to the end of their lives they will say, if only I would have lived a more joyful life but I forgot the reason I was put on earth... Don't become one of them.

When you think of baseball, you immediately think of the New York Yankees. When you think of golf, Bobby Jones comes to mind. When you think of boxing, it's Joe Louis. One of these days when people think of football, I want them to think of the Cleveland Browns.

It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past.

We must be bound to one another then," Elric murmured despairingly. "Bound by hell-forged chains and fate-haunted circumstance. Well, then—let it be thus so—and men will have cause to tremble and flee when they hear the names of Elric of Melinbone and Stormbringer, his sword. We are two of a kind—produced by an age which has deserted us. Let us give this age cause to hate us!

Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.

If there was an exit interview on the hour of our death I would like to be asked the question, "Was it worth it?" To which my response would be, "Yes, emphatically yes...but just barely.

For every culture-hero living out his myth, there must be a witness willing to pass the story on. Then

I'd been everything but ordinary and I wanted to know what that felt like before they dump me into the grave.