Quotes About Legacy

Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand.

Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it.

Life doesn't last, art doesn't last

The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

We have this one life to offer; there is no second chance.

all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.

Let us be such as help the life of the future.

At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.

Death does determine life.

The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, "Did I make the best use of the time I had?

Live a life worth remembering.

Not a single person whose name is worth remembering lived a life of ease.

You get one pass at life. That's all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

When your life is over, the world will ask you only one question: 'Did you do what you were supposed to do?'

The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.

We get ready for death by beginning to live life as we should have been living it all along.

For Aboriginal leaders, the social and moral obligation that comes with community leadership is life-long. Those who lead, who have authority, must care for and look after those who come behind.

Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want to brag about.

I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.