Quotes About Legacy

A life that moves to gracious ends Thro' troops of unrecording friends, A deedful life, a silent voice.

The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory

A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts.

Death is Life's high meed.

The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.

What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.

I am the life just passing through. I'm what remains and so are you.

Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

This moment will just be another story someday.

How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy – a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others.

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.

I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.

I want to run for eternal glory and track is great, but it's not what life is all about.

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.

I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now Im spending years of my life trying to get away from it.

Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.