Quotes About Legacy

for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It's a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

the quality of your life will come down to the quality of your contribution.

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.

All the mistakes you will ever make in your life have already been made by those that have walked before you.

when you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die the world cries while you rejoice.

At the end of your life, when you strip away all the accessories that are important to us now, only 3 things will be important: 1. Have you lived wisely? 2. Have you loved richly? 3. And have you served the world greatly?

What would I do today if it was my last?

on your deathbed, in the twilight of your life, it will not be all the risks you took that you will regret the most.

Albert Camus once said that 'Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.

One's sense of mortality is a great source of wisdom.

Shortly after you have awakened, go into your sanctuary of silence. Get still and focused. Then ask yourself this question: 'What would I do today if today was my last?

On our deathbeds, none of us wishes we had more money in the bank or a bigger car sitting in the driveway. Instead, as we take our last few breaths, we wish that we had lived a life that was courageous, authentic and remarkably loving.

because we don't know [when we will die], we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well.

La vita dataci dalla natura è breve, ma la memoria di una vita ben spesa è eterna.

The life given us, by nature is short, but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal." —Cicero

And never work only for the income. Labor for the impact. Make your dominant pursuit the heartfelt release of value that represents an uncommon magic that borders on the poetic.

Do not live as if you have ten thousand years left. Your fate hangs over you. While you are still living, while you still exist on this Earth, strive to become a genuinely great person." —Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor

Llegar a tu último día y descubrir que podías haber sido un líder y transformar el mundo en un lugar mejor. Pero te negaste a aceptar esa misión porque te dio miedo. Así que fracasaste. Y desperdiciaste

EACH OF US IS BORN INTO GENIUS. Sadly, most of us die amid mediocrity

all the things we spend the best days of our lives chasing really don't matter that much. All that we really need once our lives get to the end doesn't amount to much more than about six feet of soil. What truly counts then is what we will leave behind

Greatest People

Verás tu vida como lo que realmente es: una pequeña marca en el lienzo de la eternidad.

la verdadera generosidad para con el futuro consiste en entregarlo todo al presente».

Most people don't discover how to live until it's time to die-and that's a shame. Most people spend the best years of their lives watching television in a subdivision. Most people die at twenty and are buried at eighty. Please, don't let that happen to you.