Legacy Quotes

Your book goes places you may never go and helps people you may never meet

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

You must appreciate beauty for it to endure.

~ Pat Conroy

The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, Are we being good ancestors?

~ Steven Johnson

it was so hard to see what the future held because to perform at this game, you have to be “in the mud,” obsessed with the task at hand. Perspective is neutralized, stunted so that you can capture only the most relevant, time-sensitive data that will determine how to approach your opponent that day. Then you look up and realize your 20-year career has been a collection of days where you couldn’t see tomorrow.

~ Doug Glanville

Serving my generation with excellence will mean my generation can in turn lead with excellence.

~ Onyi Anyado

So much of what we read and write these days is disposable.

~ John Kasich

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.

~ Steve Saint

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny after ward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honour. It is human at least, if not divine.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

What I really want is to be recognized as a writer; that someday, my poetry — this is an interesting paradox — would be taught in English classes; for my name, along with my poetry, to exist 500 years from now.

~ Harley King

Some live life passionately, some live just to be alive, while some are already dead and are waiting for it to be official. Live your life to the fullest so your legacy won't ever die.

~ Farshad Asl

We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

~ David Brower

While Johns (Martin Luther King's predecessor as pastor in Montgomery) agreed with Dexter's general disdain for emotionalism, he was very fond of traditional spirituals, believing they represented a part of their history they ought to embrace and celebrate.

~ Troy Jackson

Sir Arthur grimaced. He hated violence - perhaps his father ingrained that into him. But he still fought, for principle and for father's legacy. Now that legacy meant the protection of defenseless women. There were a few Persians in the way to execute that duty. He stabbed his blade into a Tatar's chest. Another one.

~ Justus A. Platt

We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

~ Sammy Davis Jr.

Lawrence will go on burying his own undertakers.

~ Harold Bloom

A visionary is a leader of excellence who sees what others do not see, who achieves for now and plans for the future, who positively impacts different generations and raises up other visionaries.

~ Onyi Anyado

A true love can cross through your legacy and heritage.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the noble savage and the General Will, but a partnership between the present generation and future generations.

~ Niall Ferguson

Jesus' fathomless love changes how you and I will live in our moments, how we'll love in our neighborhoods, and what we'll be known for in eternity.

~ Jennifer Dukes Lee

She had dispersed. She was the garden at Prem Nivas (soon to be entered into the annual Flower Show), she was Veena's love of music, Pran's asthma, Maan's generosity, the survival of some refugees four years ago, the neem leaves that would preserve quilts stored in the great zinc trunks of Prem Nivas, the moulting feather of some pond-heron, a small unrung brass bell, the memory of decency in an indecent time, the temperament of Bhaskar's great-grandchildren. Indeed, for all the Minsisster of Revenue's impatience with her, she was his regret.And it was right that she should continue to be so, for he should have treated her better while she lived, the poor, ignorant, grieving fool.

~ Vikram Seth

Amazing tributaries feeding where the rivers will never flow....

~ Jars Of Clay

People who live according to the pure code of honor are not governed by the profit motive; they are governed by the thymotic urge, the quest for recognition. They seek the sort of glory that can be won only by showing strength in confrontation with death.

~ David Brooks

Let us live not only to serve God ourselves, let us live to help our children and their children live for God.

~ Dillon Burroughs

He’d always loved this land, loved how his family had tamed it. It was as much a part of him as his blood. Being involved with him meant moving back here. Being surrounded by bad memories.

~ Leah Braemel

Your distinction shouldn't be measured by your duration but rather, your donation.

~ Onyi Anyado

For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.

~ Anton Chekhov

Ambition's ambition is immortality. To create an eternal legacy.

~ Renzo Dante (Saligiare)

Ambition is a noble passion which may legitimately take many forms, there was something noble in the ambitions of Attila or Napoleon, but the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.

~ G.h. Hardy

I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom.

~ Geraldine Brooks

A father's aim is to raise children who themselves raise good citizens.

~ Nicholas Dawidoff

An institution needs more than one person to survive.

~ The Good Witch

Our elders, and our elders’ kin, and their kin before them, fought to keep Sunningrocks in our territory. Many of them lost their lives, giving up their last breath for stones that belong to us. Can we give up where they did not, turn tail and flee when they kept fighting so that their kits could hunt and play and bask on these rocks? Will you fight with me now, in honor of all our elders and all our unborn kits?

~ Erin Hunter

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.

~ Ray Bradbury

No one goes on, but what we leave behind keeps us alive for someone else.

~ Adam Silvera

I have come to learn, that when people of money and power organize to set upon to break a person they seek to silence, and the person seems but a shadow of what they were, under the endless barrage, in the end when laid to rest, the dignity, compassion and presence of the person somehow endures, and their words awaken to speak clearer than before.As if torches ignite, when their flame is gone,and the light of their truth,Is brilliantly lit and once more born.

~ Tom Althouse

Those who remember, remembered live on; those who forget, forgotten are gone.

~ Jonathan Clark

Sometimes words ruin everything.

~ Jesikah Sundin

Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet?

~ Ryan Lilly