Quotes About Legacy

A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever completing a life means.

Instead of just getting old and giving up and dying, let's learn to make a huge contribution to life.

In 10,000 years you will not regret anything you didn't have or do in this life.

I was at Barcelona for many years where I won a lot of things and achieved a lot of dreams. For these reasons it holds a special place in my life.

All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."

It matters not how long you live, but how well.

I always think about the streets because that's where I come from and that's where I'm going to die one day. That is my life.

Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.

I want to lead an important life. I want to do it because I was born a human being.

You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.

Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on.

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.

A lot of people say you always come back to what you are good at. Football has been 25 years of my life, so maybe I'll come back to it in some sort of way.

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.

It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live." ~spoken by Augustus McCrae

I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished.

Tell them I've had a wonderful life.

Life is a glorious opportunity, if it is used to condition us for eternity. If we fail in this, though we succeed in everything else, our life will have been a failure.

The importance of my legacy is not the golf course, it's what my life is, and what my life is intended to be. The game of golf is a game. My family is my life.

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.