952 Quotes About Legacy

The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rockstar and you think, "They'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion.

When I do something like you you'll be on my mind all through, ‘Cause I forgot you left me behind to remind me of you.

What we do in life, echoes in eternity.

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

How freeing of a thought: instead of worrying about leaving a legacy, to leave no trace of one's existence. How liberating indeed!

The true test of a father’s legacy is that it rests in every life except his own, for to leave a true legacy we must divest ourselves of everything so that the investment in our families can be everything.

You've given me a bad nameI'll only make worse.

He was one of life’s great helpers, for he cleaned up foul places and made them sweet.

Live in such a way that when you die you leave God in your will for your children.