Quotes About Legacy

At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose?

What we do in life ripples in eternity.

People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.

With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you

I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!

Do not weep, for I shall be more useful to you after my death and I shall help you then more effectively than during my life.

Let your life be your message.

There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.

How people die remains in the memory of those who live on

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Life is something you can't borrow and give back; Here today and gone tomorrow...just like that.

You have only one life and it will soon be past, and only what's done for Christ will last.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.

Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.

Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

We all leave footprints as we journey through life--make sure yours are worth following.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.