Quotes About Legacy

I look up to so many powerful women who succeeded before me and I'm here doing my thing to inspire women who will come after me.

I have tried to bring the family together. My father should have done it, and to some extent, I have succeeded.

Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Success has many fathers and failure is an orphan.

It's important for anybody who finds success to show other people where to find it.

How does one measure the success of a museum?

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

With success comes responsibility of playing your part, to do what you can to help not only those that helped you get to where you're at, but the future of who's going to be playing a part of your business and everything you do in your entire career.

I always believe that the elders in my family are the reason for my success.

Success is fine, but success is fleeting. Significance is lasting.

The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.

I don't think my success or me having the opportunity to have success is from our generation. I think it's from the generations before us. I think it's the fact that people like Martin Luther King and Medgar Evers and people like that fought for us to have the freedom to do and say what we want and have the opportunity to make money.

Our ambitions are not limited to quarterly results. Our ambitions are linked to a belief in what we do. And one of the definite privileges of success is being able to see beyond yourself.

My greatest success story has been my family.

I want very badly to have a success story at the end of it, at the end of my career and say, regardless of how many matches I can win this summer, I want to go to the U.S. Open - for that be my final event - and say I went out on my own terms, instead of it being taken away from me in Winston-Salem in 2013.

A lot of people don't remember anything since 'Ice Ice Baby,' but I've got 3 records out since then and they're all successes - but not commercially.

I've never been a Clinton fan. He's had some accomplishments, and he's very skilled at politics, but, you know, he's had some successes and a very good economy. And the question is how much or how little of that does he deserve credit for.

My father Kamran Khan was a successful producer, director and actor in B-grade films.

We're Real Madrid - and being successful is part of our DNA.

I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

I think if you're the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it's a double pressure. More is expected of you.

There's always been a hunger in me not necessarily to be successful, but to be an icon.