Quotes About Legacy

The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.

Don't die with your music (stories/talents) still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul.

I live my life based on 2 principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever.

In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

Elvis Presley is my spiritual father, and as you may know Maria Callas is my spiritual mother.

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

One of the greatest influences a person can have in this world is to influence a child.

I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.

Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements ... those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing.

I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.

Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.

It is a strange thing ,that every child is born with a closed hand , and every body dies with an open hand !

My grandma was a huge believer, very spiritual, probably the most spiritual person I've ever known in my life.

Every person has the choice to contribute to or drain from this world.

Make your mark in the world with divine ink: love.

We all have a mission. And that mission is to love ourselves, love each other, help one another and leave this world in a better place because we lived on it.

On deathbed every single good, bad, ugly moment becomes special.

It's a nice feeling, Knowing, Someone lived easier Because I was alive.

I am just like you, Destined to play my part.And leave, In the nature of my departure at least, Some kind of sweet message behindIn the fathomless pattern I make.

We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.