Legacy Quotes

• No legacy is so rich as honesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  1604-5 Mariana to Diana. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act 3, sc.5, l.12-13.

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• If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.

  Maya Angelou

  World, Mark, Ifs

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• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett". Book by Andrew Kilpatrick, 1994.

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• The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.

  Og Mandino

  Children, Memories, Precious Moments

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• If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Leadership, Dream

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• The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.

  N. D. Kalu

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

  Billy Graham

  Children, Character, Materials

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• Our most important legacy will be the contributions we make to the lives of other human beings.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Important, Contribution, Lives Of Others

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• When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Marriage, Light

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.71, Macmillan

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• We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow.

  Stephen Covey

  Impact, Differences, Making A Difference

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• What is your legacy? Are you intentional about the sort of influence you want to have on the world around you? Being aware of how you want to be remembered gives you a perspective on what is truly important. Leadership is influence, and relationships are the foundation of leadership. Nothing is more predictive of your legacy than the quality of people you surround yourself with.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Giving, Perspective

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• It's about the journey--mine and yours--and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better.

  Tony Dungy

  Journey, World, Change For The Better

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• It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

  Christine Gregoire

  Children, Feminist, Generations

  Christine Gregoire's Inaugural Speech in Olympia, Washington, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 12, 2005.

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• How you use the opportunities your given to affect the world around you will determine the legacy you leave behind.

  Tony Dungy

  Opportunity, Use, World

  Tony Dungy (2010). “The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently”, p.101, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you leave a little footprint, and that's your legacy.

  Jan Brewer

  Mother, Littles, Matter

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• Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy – a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others.

  Tony Dungy

  Purpose, Patterns, Life Is

  Tony Dungy (2010). “The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently”, p.12, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• When the legacy you leave behind lasts for hours, days or a lifetime, you matter.

  Seth Godin

  Greatness, Matter, Lasts

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.79, Penguin

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• Each day we choose to live the legacy we want to leave.

  Pam Farrel

  Each Day, Want

  Pam Farrel (2015). “7 Simple Skills for Every Woman: Success in Keeping Everything Together”, p.175, Harvest House Publishers

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• The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Worry, Soul

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• We've got a responsibility to live up to the legacy of those who came before us by doing all that we can to help those who come after us.

  Michelle Obama

  Inspiring, Responsibility, Feminism

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• Achievement comes to someone when he is able to do great things for himself. Success comes when he empowers followers to do great things with him. Significance comes when he develops leaders to do great things for him. But a legacy is created only when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Organization, Empowering

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Complete 101 Collection”, p.222, Harper Collins

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• Create your legacy, and pass the baton.

  Billie Jean King

  Success, Baton

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• This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

  Paul Tsongas

  Land, Air, Water

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• I want to be known as Dominican-that's what I am, 100 percent ... I have a duty and responsibility to continue the legacy of Dominicans in baseball.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Baseball, Responsibility, Want

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• When I leave the NBA, I don't want my legacy to be, 'He won a championship ring.' I want my legacy to say: 'He played for the people. He gave everybody in the world hope that they can be just like him.'

  Gilbert Arenas

  Nba, People, World

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