Legacy Quotes

True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.

Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

I want to make my own path and leave behind a good legacy for myself and honestly, I just want to be innovative and always down for other people. That's what I want to be remembered by. I want to inspire.

If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.

All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.

I'm here to say my legacy in The Octogon is over ... I re-signed last night with @WWE.

I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

The best legacy you could leave is not some building that is names after you or a piece of jewelry but rather a world that has been impacted and touched by your presence, your joy, and your positive actions.

Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.

What a great way to see all of our legacies live on, through the video games.

Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.

It's about the journey--mine and yours--and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better.

The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.

There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase 'to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy.' The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.

The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.

Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.

Education affects every major challenge we face in society. It creates economic growth, paves the way for peace and stability and helps erase the legacy of marginalization.

The Legacy of Behaviorism: Do this and you'll get that.

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.

How can we create a cultural legacy of happiness? Let other people matter.

At some point we all have to move on. Im here to create some kind of legacy in Brooklyn.

Your children are your legacy to the world. As you raise them with love, you contribute to making this world a better place.

Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends.It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs.

There's weight on me to raise the bar, to carry on that legacy. But that's what drives me. Making sure that no one ever forgets who the Wallendas are.

To say that truth is not out there is simply to say that where there are no sentences there is no truth, that sentences are elements of human languages, and that languages are human creations.~ The suggestion that truth~ is out there is a legacy of an age in which the world was seen as the creation of a being who had a language his own.

You can't leave a footprint that lasts if you're always walking on tiptoe.

Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined.

I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.

My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

I don't need to tell you that, what determines a man's legacy is often what isn't seen.

Ownership, that's what you give your kids. That's your legacy.

The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

We don't live forever... Our legacy does.

How you use the opportunities your given to affect the world around you will determine the legacy you leave behind.

Sting's legacy was built on Ric Flair's reputation.

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

We get one opportunity in life, one chance at life to do whatever you're going to do, and lay your foundation and make whatever mark you're going to make. Whatever legacy you're going to leave; leave your legacy!

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy. To eat with reckless abandon, without conscience, without knowledge; folks, this ain't normal.

If my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But if my life is motivated by the power of the Spirit in me, if I live with the awareness of the indwelling Christ, if I allow His presence to guide my actions, to guide my motives, those sort of things. That's the only time I think we really leave a great legacy.

The past is a pebble in my shoe.

History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

There is always going to be love versus hate; we struggle with that as humans within ourselves every day; as a society, we have to struggle. So when you wake up, you have to decide which side you're going to be on. Hopefully, that side is positive, so you do the work and hope that your legacy will help change things.

Our legacy is how we spend our time and who we spend it with.

I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.

If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition.