Quotes About Legacy

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.

Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.

Death is promised. So what do you do with your life? How do you make the most of it? How do you make your voice the loudest?

This life we have is short, so let us leave a mark for people to remember.

To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark - in a way that you think is important and lasting - that's a life well-lived.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live the life you have while you have it.

The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

I want to make a poem of my life.

Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.

We won't ever see another one like Paul Scholes. He is a legend and a real benchmark. He is not interested in the modern-day footballer's life off the pitch, but he is a world-class player on it.

No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?

When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.

The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.