Quotes About Legacy

It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.

For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.

My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'

I write as if to save somebody's life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.

The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to be ashamed.

Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?

My whole life is about being Nicki Minaj now. It's a never-ending saga.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

It's not what you have at the end of life, it's what you leave behind that matters.

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

All the work I've done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm fifty.

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.

I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

Do not deny the impact your life can have on others.

Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.