Quotes about Legacy
History is not good news or bad news, it's just one big story unreeling. There are no small parts, only small actors.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Golden children ran wild over a field of dead great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers, and the bones must have wanted to rise up and knock together and rattle with joy. I have never seen a town that gave so much—so much of what counts—to its children. More than anything else I wished I belonged to one of these living, celebrated families, lush as plants, with bones in the ground for roots. I wanted pollen on my cheeks and one of those calcium ancestors to decorate as my own.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Her mark on history: the female acquaintance.
— Barbara Kingsolver
One man asked another on the death of a mutual friend, "How much did he leave?" His friend responded, "He left it all.
— Stephen Covey
Level 5 leaders display a paradoxical combination of personal humility and professional will, channelling their energy, drive, creativity and discipline in to something larger and more enduring than themselves.
— Stephen Covey
The body, the heart, the mind, and the spirit. The essence of these needs is captured in this phrase "to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy.
— Stephen Covey
Now if I were sitting at that funeral we visualized earlier, and one of my children was about to speak, I would want his life to represent the victory of teaching, training, and disciplining with love over a period of years rather than the battle scars of quick fix skirmishes. I would want his heart and mind to be filled with the pleasant memories of
— Stephen Covey
"Begin with the end in mind" is to begin today with the image, picture, or paradigm of the end of your life as your frame of reference or the criterion by which everything else is examined.
— Stephen Covey
What contributions, what achievements will you want to have made in your field
— Stephen Covey
The futility of bad-mouthing, bad-thinking, put-downs, and accusation becomes very evident when they think in terms of only having a short time to live. Principles and values become more evident to everybody
— Stephen Covey
Life is no brief candle to me. It's a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
— Stephen Covey
Our basic human needs and capacities to live, to love, to learn, and to leave a legacy.
— Stephen Covey