Quotes about Legacy
So I know, with a sense of responsibility that hits me with a cold fist in the pit of my stomach, that what I am is going to make more difference to my own children and those I talk to and teach than anything I tell them.
— Madeleine L'Engle
we would, all of us, be less than we are if it weren't for those we love and who've loved us who have died.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do. [To his wife Betty Shabazz]
— Malcolm X
Success is not what you leave to but what you leave behind
— John Maxwell
If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.
— Germany Kent
What you do daily decides your destiny and (more importantly) your legacy.
— Mensah Oteh
Every day you leave a legacy behind, so make it a good one by doing something of significance.
— Mensah Oteh
Making your mark in the world is better than making trouble.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Standing on the shoulders of the great allows you to see further than everyone.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Children who die young are some of our greatest teachers. We are allowed to die when we have taught what we came to teach and when we have learned what we came to learn.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged.
— Herman Melville
And yet, had it not been for Judas, there might not have been a crucifixion, and had there been no crucifixion, there would have been no Christianity.
— Amos Oz