Legacy Life Lessons Quotes

“Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.”
― Germany Kent

“Funny how we do not realize the true value and legacy of a living icon until they suddenly pass away. Truth is, there are many living legends among us, we just do not stop and take time to notice their worth until it's too late.”
― Germany Kent

“If you are in a position where you can reach people, then use your platform to stand up for a cause. HINT: social media is a platform.”
― Germany Kent

“After you are gone, people may forget most of what you have said and done. But they will remember that you loved them.”
― Steve Goodier

“I have come to learn,
that when people of money and power organize
to set upon to break a person they seek to silence,
and the person seems but a shadow of what they were,
under the endless barrage,
in the end when laid to rest,
the dignity, compassion and presence of the person
somehow endures,
and their words awaken to speak clearer than before.
As if torches ignite, when their flame is gone,
and the light of their truth,
Is brilliantly lit and once more born.”
― Tom Althouse

“Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can follow and make better, and then someone else will follow that and make that better.”
― Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“Don't just build a career, build a legacy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism

“Studying the history of our ancestors is instructive. I understand some of my parents’ struggles and sacrifices. I am acquainted with my grandparents and great grandparents’ way of life. The common denominator that runs through their lifeblood is a hardpan of resiliency, courage, and work ethic. They also shared a phenomenal degree of competency essential to make due in an open land where the pioneering spirit meets nature under a big sky full of endless possibilities for triumph and setback. My forebears took care of their family members and tended their ancestral land before the word caretaker was a recognized term for a loving man, woman, or child. Self-reliant people who master the skills essential for survival in a harsh clime also value helping other people who are in a fix. All my predecessors were quick to lend a hand to a neighbor in need. Their ability to see life through the heart was the decisive feature of their pioneering pluck.

How we start a day, presages how the day shall unfold. Each day when I awaken, I feel clobbered by the preceding day. At days end, I feel comparable to a chewed on piece of masticated beef. I devote all available personal energy reserves to simply getting by and muss over how I can engender the energy to make it through today’s pulp works. In reality, I go on because akin to every generation that preceded me and every generation that succeeds me, I must continue onward or I will expire. The one fact that keeps me going is the realization that all generations of people struggle. What we share with preceding generations is our heartaches and our willingness to struggle in order to make the world a better place for the next generation.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Strive to leave a legacy beyond your limitations and far beyond the expectations of others.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Yes, we all die but there's a tendency to focus on the end too much. Life can be a wondrous, sparkling comet trail that we leave in our wake for others to marvel at.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I end where you begin
And begin where you end;
You are my Earth’s horizon
And the axis on which it spins”
― Eric Overby, Legacy

“The people of Earth cannot progress in isolation from each other. The family unit, community spirit, and society as a whole are fragmenting at alarming rates as we sit inert behind our devices and social media. Fear of cultural appropriation inhibits the inspiration necessary for others to create new things. We must build on the towering achievements of all those who have gone before us. Then, by pooling our resources, regardless of race, colour, creed, gender, sexuality, or physical ability, we ensure that our legacy is a rich inheritance for all those yet to be born.”
― Stewart Stafford

“No matter what stage you are in, acknowledging that our possessions, homes, and affairs can be problematic to those we leave behind is the first step toward taking proactive measures to reduce potential chaos and strife among those destined to deal with it.”
― Lisa J. Shultz, Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.

“In the symphony of existence, our actions compose the melody of our legacy.”
― Carlos Wallace, Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free

“Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“A beacon of light shining in a dark tunnel leads even the blind to safety”
― Wogu Donald

“Write a book, create an identity, create a property, create a legacy for yourself.”
― Neeraj Singhvi, Write a Million Dollar Book in 10 Days

“It is said of the Dalai Lama that when he stops to talk to you, for that moment, he makes you feel that you are the most important thing in his life, you have his full attention.”
― Eric Overby, Legacy

“Your life's work determines your legacy and the impact that you have on the world.”
― Germany Kent

“My legacy will live on to inspire future generations.”
― Germany Kent

“Live the way you want to be remembered.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“Be remembered for things that matter.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“We never fully die even in what we think of as actual death. We change again and become echoes in others, and they carry us forward.”
― Eric Overby

“Does Ebui dream of a private grave? People in fancy dress eulogizing, laying down their offerings. Or does she dream past the frontier, a quicksilver cavern to adorn forever?”
― Johnny Firic, The Oldest Word

“I’m Building a Legacy with ME in Mind for ME and MINE!”
― Constance Delores Burrell, KYNG SUPA NOVA'S ADVENTURES OPERATION COVID-19: WITH FAMILY WE CAN CONQUER ALL

“It is your actions in the face of adversity
that will prevail as your LEGACY.”

John J. McBrearty
Iraq, 2003-2005”
― John J. McBrearty, COMBAT JOURNAL: Part 2 of 4, The Battle for Iraq

“See Me In One by Stewart Stafford

Crave not aged flight,
Your titian crown ringed,
With cherubim cheeks,
In child's play, winged.

I shed this life's skin,
My texts echoing guide,
Find flesh through them,
Righteous wordage sighed.

In forest dark, I found you,
All before, a stillborn nought,
Of everything in ardour rendered,
Your form, pride's ransom bought.

© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“. . . when I read those words again, I realized that my father’s journal was meant to be more than just a historical artifact—it is the cornerstone of a living legacy—an enduring family heritage where each generation can add their stories to keep “The Remembering” of how it was with us in our time.

—Michael James Collins
July 8, 1901”
― Charles Paul Collins, THE REMEMBERING: Of Leather & Stone

“Stone, like gold, is a seductive material because it can last unchanged for thousands of years after the artisan is gone. This has deep meaning for the stone artisan, who knows his finished work is a record for future generations.

Giuseppe Ambrosini
Quincy, Massachusetts, 1891”
― Charles Paul Collins, THE REMEMBERING: Of Leather & Stone