Build a Lasting Legacy Quotes

“Sharing your knowledge is the only way to achieve immortality.”

“Success isn't just what you accomplish in your life. It's what you inspire others to do.”

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.”

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”

“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.”

“There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.”

“Success without a successor is failure. Your legacy must be in people.”

“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”

“A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children.”

“Remember, you're not just living a life, you're also writing a story. Make it a good one.”

“If your life ended right now, would you be happy? Would your book be incomplete?”

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”

“Life is short, the fruit of this life is a good character and acts for the common good.”

“A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.”

“Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.”

“When we die our entire legacy is simply the added together strengths of all the connections we make with others.”

“In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story.”

“There is no immortality but the memory that is left in the minds of men. To have lived without glory, without leaving a trace of existence, is not to have lived at all.”

“The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have.”

“Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, ‘Did you bring joy?’ The second was, ‘Did you find joy?’”

“When you get to my age, you’ll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.”

“A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.”

“The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.”

“No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.”

“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?”

“It is a brief period of life that is granted us by nature, but the memory of a well-spent life never dies.”

“I hope people remember me as a good and decent man. And if they do, then that’s success.”

“To live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy.”

“If you carefully consider what you wanted to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.”