Quotes About Legacy

History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

If you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering

Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

Safety is knowing that when this particular life form is finished, what it has served remains.

Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

Life is like a sandwich! Birth as one slice, and death as the other. What you put in-between the slices is up to you. Is your sandwich tasty or sour?

Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destin'd Hour and went his way.

If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition.

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life

If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.

I want to live my life in a way that when I get really old, I look back at my life and say: aaah I lived it, not survived it.

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.

You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

We only live once, since we are given the gift of life it should be our persistent endeavor to immortalize ourselves no matter what field of endeavor we choose.

The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.

The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. History recks nothing of human logic