Quotes about Legacy
Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
— Jesse Jackson
Seek to live,remembrance is for the old.
— Paulo Coelho
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
— Steve Jobs
The dead should not rule the living.
— Thomas Jefferson
You have one chance to write the story of your life. Make it a bestseller.
— Karen Kingsbury
Life is short, but art is long. Sophocles is dead, but Oedipus lives on…Each of us when we read a great piece of literature is a little more human than before.
— James Sire
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
No treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.
— Edith Wharton
For four or five generations it had been the rule of both houses that a young fellow should go to Columbia or Harvard, read law, and then lapse into more or less cultivated inaction.
— Edith Wharton
Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
— Edmund Burke