Legacy Quotes
You can choose when and when not to be stopped... Choose to be stopped after you die... when your work is done and done well.
Your patriotism is not measured by what your country can do for you. It's all about what you can do for your country for your own benefit and for the benefit of unborn generations!
We live for our unfulfilled dreams when we are alive. Our fulfilled dreams live for us when we are gone!
You have no control over your growth or development. But you have a control on the direction of your growth and development! Go, grow towards impact directions!
It's when the seed grows up that it is known as a tree. Nobody calls the "seedlings" as "trees" and no seedling is ever useful because it doesn't produce fruits! You got to grow up!
Some people die and you realize that the only mark they left on earth are the tomb stones under which they lie. The impacts you make on earth should be something worthy to improve lives.
Not everyone who died had left a "memory" and not everyone who had left a memory had left a "blessed" one. Therefore, not all have died should be tagged "...of a blessed memory
It's never too early to think about your legacy, " she would say. "Don't you want to leave some kind of mark that you were here?
Let my memories of you be like water on the moon. A beautiful impossibility - but allowing me to sleep and dream of infinite beginnings rather than Othello endings.
Today and every day, live and lead the memory you want to leave behind.
When you have left your life, you will be judged not for your possessions but for your contributions.
I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.
I travel for the great stories now ready tell, and those waiting to be told.
I travel to know where I fit into the world, and where I don’t.
Sometimes I travel just to be overwhelmed – for it’s good every now and then to be overwhelmed.
I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness.
I travel because life is short, and I will not wait for fear of death or sanctuary to become a prison of my own making.
Any self-defense situation has the potential to quickly become A 'life and death' situation, therefore your practice of martial arts should be undertaken, as if your very life depends on it . . .
If You Don't Believe the Numbers and Believe in Your Spirit, then You're Ageless.
You haven't seen a thing until you've seen this man fight. My sword is sharp. My heart strong. My spirit ferocious - and I am going to live. Let the swords clash. Let the fight begin.
Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.
It's the journey that matters, soak it in. Learn lessons out of it. Impact positively so that if you never get to your destination, at least you'd leave a legacy to be remembered.
In planning anything, the best place to begin is at the end. What outcome do you want? How do you want the story to end? How do you want to be remembered when you are gone?
When we are gone, the only essential thing we will leave behind are the memories we create in the lives of those we have touched and those we love.
The goal of a life purpose is not what you will create, but what it will make you into for creating it.
No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.
Your life is not a countdown to your death, but a stepping stone for the lives that will live after you. Squander today, and you will find yourself useless tomorrow.
We all have an opportunity and responsibility to create a legacy. A legacy which is resilient, sustainable and authentic." - Jim Cookson, Doctoral Student, Ashridge Business School, UK, August 2014
One of Obama’s greatest failures will be his legacy of making millions completely dependent on government handouts, not work....So sad.
After only a few moments in her presence, he found himself wondering what dragon he might slay for her.
Respect both what you need to know and what you don't need to know. Respect mystery, for mystery is still needed to run the universe.
I have two rules I follow religiously:#1. Don't sweat the small stuff.#2. It's all small stuff.
If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: ‘What’s great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!’ It will be about how the whole thing stands up.
They don't know the distinction between taking care of a child and raising a child.
When we let the expectations of others or own unreasonable self-expectations rule, we silence the power of our Legacies.
Everyone is born and they die, but it's the memories they leave behind that define them and let them live on than others.
If you bungle raising children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
It’s a fool who thinks having a kid is a right, which is the biggest crock of fish heads I’ve ever heard.
Love your kids and just be there for them. You don’t have to eyeball their every moment or to orchestrate all their comings and goings. They know this. They know that’s too much.
Children need fairy tales, but it is just as essential that they have parents who tell them about their own lives, so that they can establish a relationship to the past.
In this world where I sit at my desk writing these words, people die, they pass on, people are mortal. In the cyber world we inhabit they do not.
He was one of life’s great helpers, for he cleaned up foul places and made them sweet.
It's through traveling you make the great journey into yourself, and it's the clarity of extremes in traveling that forces you to meet yourself like you've never met yourself before.
It is inevitable that I will leave a legacy simply because I cannot walk through life without leaving footprints as I walk. Therefore, I would be wise to consider the path before I make the prints.