Quotes About Legacy

That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.

What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.

I want to look at myself in the mirror at the end of my life and say I've done my share and I'm proud of what I've done.

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.

My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.

And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones.

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.

All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.

If it's the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.

One of the primary goals in life ... should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary.

Frank Sinatra turns 100 this year and his music has been a major player in the soundtrack of my life. So it's only right that I return the favor and pay it forward.

In this case, I realize that, unlike when I was 22 years old, I realize now that football will not go on forever, it is a small part of your life.

See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.

My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.

Live your life as if you are writing your Biography.

We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.