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Quotes About Legacy

I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.
~ Dweezil Zappa
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
~ Dwight D Eisenhower
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.
~ Austin O'Malley
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
~ John Ortberg
All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.
~ Mathew Brady
Your life is meant to be an epic story. How you think, perform and live today is part of that script.
~ Robin Sharma
It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
~ Bryant H. McGill
A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation.
~ Myles Munroe
Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.
~ Robert Breault
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
~ Pat Conroy
To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.
~ Henry Green
If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.
~ George Pelecanos
The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here
~ Goldie Hawn
If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Walmart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.
~ Jack Ma
I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.
~ Jean Rhys
The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
~ Andre Malraux
Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux