Build a Lasting Legacy Quotes
Your legacy is being written right now, in the lives you touch. The man who builds something bigger than himself is remembered long after louder men are forgotten. This Impact path holds history's deepest quotes on legacy. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”
“You can start a thousand businesses, launch 100 projects, and take dozens of companies public, but you only have one shot at being part of your kid's childhood. Your kid doesn't care about your platform, they care about your presence.”
“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”
“How can I leave my mark on the world, I thought, unless I get out there first and make sure it's still around?”
“The goal is not just to succeed, but to create something that lasts for generations”
“The average human heart beats 100,000 times per day. Make those beats count.”
“Do something worth remembering.”
“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.”
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”
“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.”
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.”
“Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.”
“If you are an entrepreneur and just starting out, you have a golden opportunity to think deeply about the influence you want to have on the world.”
“Work hard, have fun, make history”
“Success is about creating something timeless”
“Sharing your knowledge is the only way to achieve immortality.”
“You were born with the ability to change someone's life - don't ever waste it.”
“Success without a successor is failure. Your legacy must be in people.”
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
“Your legacy is every life you've touched.”
“Success is making a dent in the universe, one step at a time”
“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.”
“Be a builder - build something that outlasts you”
“Businesses that serve society last.”
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
“The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things, but rather a legacy of character and faith.”
“Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.”
“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.”
“Success isn't just what you accomplish in your life. It's what you inspire others to do.”
“True greatness consists in being great in little things.”
“You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”
“A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children.”
“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
“The real reward for doing your best work is not the money you make but the leader you become.”
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
“Each warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches.”
“If your business depends on you, you don't own a business—you have a job.”
“I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met.”
“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.”
“The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.”
“Today I shall behave as if this is the day I will be remembered.”
“Success is not about money; it's about making a difference and creating something lasting”
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
“Things don't have to change the world to be important.”
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
“Don't worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.”
“There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.”
“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
“Legacy is not leaving something for people. It's leaving something in people.”
“A eulogy has nothing to do with your resume. Eulogies are about what matters: how we make people feel.”
“To leave the world better than you found it, that is the ultimate success.”
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
“The definition of greatness is to inspire the people next to you. It's not something that lives and dies with one person. It's how you inspire a person to then, in turn, inspire another person, that then inspires another person. That's how you create something that lasts forever.”
“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.”
“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
“There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.”
“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.”
“Legacy is greater than currency.”
“View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?”
“A life lived with integrity, even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune, is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.”
