Quotes about Legacy
We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.
— Anne Lamott
You live your life and it ends quite quickly and all you can do with it is pass it on decently to someone else. Whether directly or indirectly, behave decently to other people.
— Danny Boyle
Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.
— Diane von Furstenberg
I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.
— Ed Koch
You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.
— Erica Jong
Any man who, having planted a vineyard, has not yet reaped the benefits should do so at once, so that he does not die in the struggle and leave it for another to enjoy.
— Paulo Coelho
I am going to die. But I am going to die in peace because I lived my life as intensely as I could.
— Paulo Coelho
Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
At the end of your life on earth you will be evaluated and rewarded according to how well you handled what God entrusted to you.
— Rick Warren
As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life.
— Robin Sharma
The goal of life is not to have our lives mean something to ourselves. The goal of life is to have our lives mean something to others.
— Simon Sinek
I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.
— Theodore Roosevelt