Quotes about Legacy

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral integrity and inner character.

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life.

The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

And yet we spend so much time and effort and energy on those résumé entries—entries that lose all significance as soon as our heart stops beating.