Quotes about Legacy
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
— Woodrow Wilson
Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
— Marcus Aurelius
Life's most persistent and urgent question is: "What are you doing for others?" Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.
— George Bernard Shaw
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
— Marcus Aurelius
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
— Theodore Roosevelt
We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
— Muhammad Ali
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
— William James
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
— Marcus Aurelius