Quotes About Legacy

He breathed a power brewed from masculinity and intelligence, not from an accident of inheritance.

After a hard day in the fields, his men would strip naked and plunge into the bitterly cold loch, he among them. Even at eighteen, he could see his ancestors had bequeathed him more than a castle.

night on the way here, and he has twice the brains of my father.

grand bridge-building was also considered an honourable and Christian deed.

Cattle die, kindred die, every man is mortal: but the good name never dies of one who has done well.

I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.

But the fact that he never expressed it instilled in me a desire to show him that I'd made the right decision. It made me driven. I thought the more successful I got, the more it proved him wrong, whether he acknowledged it or not. Even today, I still sometimes think that I'm trying to show my father what I'm made of, and he's been dead since 1991.

Miles Davis dijo que cualquier pieza que se tocara a la trompeta había sido ya interpretada por Louis Armstrong.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

Do something worth remembering.

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

Fingerprints are like values--you leave them all over everything you do

there grew up around the campfires stories of a great silver stallion seen galloping over wind-packed snow way up on the Ramshead Range; of a ghost horse that drank at the Crackenback River; of a horse that all men thought was dead appearing in a blizzard at Dead Horse hut and vanishing again; of the wild stallion cry that could only be Thowra's. But no man knew where the son of Bel Bel roamed

A pragmatic leader's core job is not just to create more followers. Rather, it should be to create more leaders i.e. those who will take over from him/her. That's the way/what it should be.

Anyone who works/lives just to make both ends meet emerges/ends up nothing else but only a money bag. But, anyone who works/lives towards satisfying other people's needs as much/long as he or she can is bound to end up a philantropist/a legend e.g. Mother Theresa, George Soros, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie among others. Now, that infers, you shouldn't work/live just/only to make both ends meet.

Death is unavoidable, unimpeachably (beyond doubt and criticism). In fact, you can manipulate and escape every other fact of life except death itself. Besides that, every other fact of life has a solution excluding death. Oh! yes, you will surely die someday, sometime, somehow and somewhere. Thus, engage and indulge yourself in doing only something or things that can outlive you and speak for you perpetually after your demise. ~Emeasoba George

Do you live for mere survival or for legacy? Anyway, you ought to live for legacy rather than for mere survival or existence. Because, the legacy that you will succeed in leaving presently will eventually speak for you perpetually. I mean, your legacy is bound to outlive you many years after your demise. Thus, you've got to live to leave behind you positive legacies and never negative legacies.

Every human is gifted. Yes! the issue is that many humans fail to discover and use their God-given gifts before their demise. ~Emeasoba George

Legacy is simply what you will be remembered for or celebrated for after your demise. In other words, legacy is all about what you've succeeded in building or destroying during your lifetime. Yes! that is it. Anyway, endeavour to succeed in leaving only positive legacy behind rather than negative aspect of it. For, positive legacy is the only legacy that is ever worth leaving behind for the posterity ahead. ~Emeasoba George

Legacy is what lives on after one's demise. You will surely die someday. But, the legacy you will succeed in leaving behind will outlive you. So, strive to leave positive legacies. -Emeasobs George

Listen up, it does not matter how much money you have or how much wealth you have acquired over the years. Yes! what really matters is how many people you have enriched already with your money and wealth. As a matter of fact, no one is going to remember you and celebrate you for just being rich and stingy. Note: you can only be remembered and celebrated perpetually for being rich and generous, (mark you). -Emeasoba George

Live happily, give cheerfully, as well receive all things thankfully or gratefully. For, if you dare to live happily, give cheerfully and resolve to receive all things thankfully. Believe you me, longevity will be your portion, prosperity will run after you. And above all, you will be remembered and celebrated eventually. Even by the posterity (all future generations). -Emeasoba George

Live to leave behind you positive legacies that will outlive you. Because surely, you will be gone someday, no matter who/what/where you are currently. Oh! Yes, no human lives forever including you. As a matter of fact, we all are here (on earth) for a while. Now, I guess that is a reasonable reason why you should strive to leave behind you positive legacies that will be speaking for you, for years/forever after your demise.

Look here, your days here (on earth) are numbered. Yes, you heard me right as usual, your life can't and won't last forever. So, you've got to stop living your life as if you will live here (on earth) forever. I mean, endeavour to discover and fulfill your core purpose (your God-given destiny) for being here (on earth). For, indisputably your lifetime is limited, mark you. ~Emeasoba George.