Quotes About Legacy

We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.

Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.

Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and eventually revered.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

There may be no greater tribute to Steve Jobs' success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

There's no cap on success. The jury stays out till you take your last breath.

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.

There is no success without a successor.

Gerald Ford was unknown throughout America. Now he's unknown throughout the world.

I'm one of those people for whom success is one thing, but significance is another. If I can have both, I'm living the dream.

Twenty years from now, I can look at this medal and say, 'I was the best quarter-miler in the world on that day.' If you don't think that's important, you don't know what's inside an athlete's soul.

I want success. I want to do something. I really want people to remember my name.

I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.

What is important - what I consider success - is that we make a contribution to our world.

I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.

I've achieved a certain amount of success and now I'm thinking about the good things I can do.

Sachin Tendulkar is already a 'Bharat Ratna' for Indian people because of his phenomenal success and the manner in which he has served Indian cricket for years.

Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?