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Quotes About Legacy

No matter how big a house you have or how slick a car you drive, the only thing you can take with you at the end of your life is your conscience.
~ Robin Sharma
Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?
~ Roy H. Williams
Growing in poverty imparted a certain DNA in the life of their children.
~ Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado
In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.
~ Sarah Vowell
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.
~ Seneca the Younger
Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
I'm living a life. I have nine children.
~ Stevie Wonder
I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started.
~ Unknown
Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember that when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it.
~ Unknown
The imprint of the father, remains forever on the life of the child.
~ Unknown
Michael Jackson changed the world and, more personally, my life forever.
~ Wade Robson
I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.
~ Walt Disney
Share your knowledge and you become immortal.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?
~ Helene Hanff
The home marks a child for life.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
The example my parents set, both in and outside of our household, helped me understand that we all have a specific purpose in life--to give back to society.
~ Ilyasah Shabazz
We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.
~ Isak Dinesen
I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know [my son]... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life.
~ J. K. Rowling
There are people in life, who show you how to live. There are people in life, who show you how to die.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
Look at everything through the lens of eternity. If you will do this, life will take on a different perspective.
~ James E. Faust
When you give death, you give of your own life - every time.
~ Janet Morris
What matters most is how you live your life, not what you have to show for it.
~ Jenny Sanford
Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.
~ John Banville
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
~ John Donne