Quotes About Legacy

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you will die tomorrow.

Lead such a life, that, when you die, the people may mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company.

I want certain things out of life. I want my grand kids, my kids' kids, being able to inherit what I've worked so hard to build.

There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?

My life was too short to acheive the conquest of the whole world.

There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.

Life is God's gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history.

My life is singing. I don't plan on retiring. I plan to die on a stage. I can have a headache but when it's time to sing and I step on that stage there is no more headache.

I must say, I am trying to live my life with a sharpie marker approach. You can't erase the strokes you've made, but each step is much bolder and more deliberate.

Your time on this earth is limited, don't live someone else's life, live by your vision.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.

Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.

A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.

My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone.

Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.