952 Quotes About Legacy

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

Are we being good ancestors?

Humanity is certified legacy.

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.

The greatest edifice that we can erect to ourselves is to give ourselves over to building the edifices within other people in a manner that they might carry a part of ourselves, but they look nothing like ourselves.

The story of who you were will be told by the things that you accomplished. However, the greater story will be told by what you refused to accomplish.

It’s not the specter of aging that haunts me. Rather, it’s the far greater fear of having aged and having nothing to show for the aging.

He's had a bloody awful childhood. Like I had. Those things get passed on and on.

Are we leaving the kind of footprints in the kind of places that will cause people to remember the kind of person that we want to be remembered as? If not, maybe we should take a hard look at the shoes that we’re wearing and evaluate where we’re wearing them.