Quotes About Legacy

We have built a very good company, and we're proud of it. We also recognize that much of it has been built on the shoulders of the thousands of employees and leaders who have worked here before us.

I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.

We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.

He who can be a good son will be a good father.

I hope to be remembered as a very good jockey.

My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

A good character is the best tombstone.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

I think it's incredible because there were guys like (Willie) Mays and (Mickey) Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seed for more fruit. It is not a picture on the wall; it is a window that invies us to wider horizons.

Celebrate my death for the good times I've had, For the work that I've done and the friends that I've made. Celebrate my death, of whom it could be said, "She was a working class woman, and a red."

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.

There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them.